Agency & Self-Governance concerns our ability to participate intentionally in the direction of our own lives. Human beings are shaped by biology, culture, relationships, institutions and circumstance. Agency does not mean pretending those forces do not exist. It means participating in what happens next.
Agency becomes concrete in the choices you allow yourself to make. The glossary explores self-trust; the Reading Room essay When Kindness Becomes a Disappearance examines what happens when care for others stops including your own reality.
Self-Trust is the capacity to rely sufficiently on your own perception, judgment and ability to respond.
Courage is the capacity to act in alignment with what matters while fear, uncertainty or social cost are still present.
Discipline is the capacity to continue a consciously chosen behavior after the excitement of choosing it has faded.
The relationships matter as much as the individual capacities. Follow any connection below to see how these abilities support, regulate or complicate one another.
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