Low Agency Checklist & Traps

Low agency is basically outsourcing your worldview to other people. Outsourcing your decisions, your life.

• Muddy thinking
• Agreeability
• Bias to inaction Trap: Always set deadlines to avoid this trap. This happens because we think in the worst case scenario.
• Rumination Trap: It’s being stuck in the never-ending ‘what if it goes wrong”. Kill It. Dangerous thing is that it’s misguided as Intelligence. I’ve fallen in this trap for years.  Escape route. HOW CAN I Take action on this now. Imperfect, but at the end, action.

• Overwhelm trap. ‍The overwhelm trap turns the problem into a badly designed video game. It looks at where you are now — level 0 — and contrasts that with the ideal — level 100 — feels overwhelmed and runs away.
• Attachment Trap: being too attached to low-agency past assumptions. “You become the man with a hammer, who can only see a nail”. The problem is not the problem, but often the assumptions I have towards the problem.
• Midwit Trap: don’t be dumb but don’t try to be the genius.