How to spot low agency people
1. Social proof beats logic - It doesn't matter what was said. It matters who said it. They would agree with a person they hated if you told them it was from a person they loved.
George Mack
How to spot low agency people:
1. Social proof beats logic - It doesn't matter what was said. It matters who said it. They would agree with a person they hated if you told them it was from a person they loved.
2. The hapless question - If you're in a 3rd world prison cell, who is the person you'd never call to break you out? Even if you had unlimited free calls.
3. Steelman malfunction - Ask them who is the best person on the other side of the argument they've listened to, they can't answer it. Ask them for the idea they think their team or guru has wrong, they can't answer it.
4. A belief in "adults" - The childhood belief that superior god like adults run the world still exists. The reality is that the world is ran by grown up toddlers. They cry, sleep, make mistakes, visit the bathroom and will die one day.
5. Crabs in a bucket - If they see some person trying or creating something, their immune system response is to tear it down. The digital apex of crabs in a bucket: Twitter accounts that haven't tweeted in years -- but reply multiple times per day tearing people down.
Note: This extreme criticism never gets applied to themselves.
6. Passively downloads opinions - New ideas by their tribe immediately gets downloaded without question. The ideas are not tested by evidence, logic or a set of principles. The tribe has root access to their brain.
7. The new current thing - They are too busy with the new current thing to analyse their previous opinion on the past current thing. The software struggles to run introspection or historical analysis -- unless it reinforces their belief system.
God is dead. And social proof has taken it's place.
How to spot low agency people:
1. Social proof beats logic - It doesn't matter what was said. It matters who said it. They would agree with a person they hated if you told them it was from a person they loved.
2. The hapless question - If you're in a 3rd world prison cell, who is the person you'd never call to break you out? Even if you had unlimited free calls.
3. Steelman malfunction - Ask them who is the best person on the other side of the argument they've listened to, they can't answer it. Ask them for the idea they think their team or guru has wrong, they can't answer it.
4. A belief in "adults" - The childhood belief that superior god like adults run the world still exists. The reality is that the world is ran by grown up toddlers. They cry, sleep, make mistakes, visit the bathroom and will die one day.
5. Crabs in a bucket - If they see some person trying or creating something, their immune system response is to tear it down. The digital apex of crabs in a bucket: Twitter accounts that haven't tweeted in years -- but reply multiple times per day tearing people down.
Note: This extreme criticism never gets applied to themselves.
6. Passively downloads opinions - New ideas by their tribe immediately gets downloaded without question. The ideas are not tested by evidence, logic or a set of principles. The tribe has root access to their brain.
7. The new current thing - They are too busy with the new current thing to analyse their previous opinion on the past current thing. The software struggles to run introspection or historical analysis -- unless it reinforces their belief system.
God is dead. And social proof has taken it's place.