How High-Agency People Get What They Want Out of Life
Interview with Cate Hall about her book You Can Just Do Things: How High-Agency People Get What They Want Out of Life. Explores what it really means to become a high-agency person – someone who just does things. Unpacks why ambition isn’t the same as agency, how fear of embarrassment and an obsession with hard work hold us back, and why curiosity, unconventional thinking, and expanding your “surface area for luck” are the keys to creating extraordinary opportunities.Describes her journey from lawyer to professional poker player, overcoming addiction, and then becoming an entrepreneur – exemplifying exercising radical practicality, asking for ‘unreasonable’ things, and understanding that we have far more freedom than we typically use.
See also the episode with co-author Sasha Chapin about his book All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything.