The Most Valuable Learned Skill For Any Founder

• Everything is an issue of agency; agency is the most valuable skill for any founder
• Work from a creative mindset by actively applying your sense of agency: Write down the value, how you can display it, and then do the thing 
• Getting Ted Lasso’d: When a Brit with twice the intelligence and knowledge gets outperformed by the American who has 10x the agency and confidence
• Pay attention to your ideas that make you laugh; if they elicit this type of emotion in you, then you might be onto something 
• If you wait for the news, you will be wrong or late
  • What is ignored by the media today that will be studied by future historians?  
• Leverage on high agency has never been higher, thanks to modern AI tools 
• Some people let reality happen to them and then use words to describe it, while others use words to edit and shape their reality 
  • Language shapes the world around us
  • Minimize “should” from your vocabulary and start doing!
  • The best way to increase your agency is to hang around people with high agency
• Ideas are avocados: they are perishable – there is no time like the present to work on your idea 
• The high-agency approach to problem solving: Ask “Why, Why, Why?” and continue to drill down on the problem until you arrive at the fundamental issue upon which you can take action today 
• Speed is negotiable: Mobilize your army, which is your ideas, your resources, and your intention, to achieve your goal in much less time than you perceive to be possible 

Episode 703: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to George Mack ( https://x.com/george__mack ) about high agency. 

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Links:

• Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/wec

• High Agency - https://www.highagency.com/ 

• Nick Mowbray episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHcxoZ0j9A 

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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