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    Learn how to be more agentic and develop personal agency. Useful Fictions explores self-efficacy, autonomy, and decision-making to help you take control of your life.

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    Agency is not a fixed trait, but a muscle—a manifest determination to make things happen by seeking out the real edges that others are too uncomfortable or too annoyed to touch.

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    Section 1: Rethinking Agency as a Skill You Can Master

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    Section 2: Piercing the Cloud of Aversion and Finding Your Edge

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    Section 3: Courting Rejection and Redefining the "Reasonable" Ask

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    Section 4: The Overpowered Tool of Radical Feedback

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    Section 5: Increasing Your Surface Area for Luck

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    Section 6: The Radical Idea That Everything is Learnable

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    Section 7: Thriving in the Moat of Low Status

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    Section 8: Why Grinding is the Ultimate Agency Killer

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    Section 9: Your Practical Playbook for Building Agency

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