I have an action-oriented locus of control. It’s my belief that I have agency over my life.
This means that:
- I believe I have direct control over the events that impact and outcomes of my life and those around me,
- …despite the chaos of the world and general inability to directly influence the majority of things that happen to me,
- …and the only way to exercise this agency is to act, to do, one step at a time.
…I chose to move abroad and made it happen.
…I chose to change my career trajectory to work with early stage startups.
…I chose to make my job search public to increase its reach and ambition.
We choose to act because we, as founders, entrepreneurs and early stage employees have to believe that our decision to act matters.
Having a strong internal locus of control based around action doesn’t mean that I will always succeed, and at times it’s easy to conflate “control” with “influence” to the extent that, in most instances, we only ever have the ability to nudge the world according to our vision.
But a nudge in the face of chaos makes the difference for me. Action, agency. And you?
How do you exercise agency in your life?
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