Interesting corollary: often, a component of people “lacking the path to victory thing” is them tracking additional tradeoffs/cost. Extreme case: it’s “a lot easier” to be “agentic” if you don’t care/selectively care about people/consequences, eg psychopaths.
Of course, it’s all complicated. This stuff is likely fairly contextual too, see: Cate post on willpower. idt character traits are infinitely general or specific, exactly.
Interesting corollary: often, a component of people “lacking the path to victory thing” is them tracking additional tradeoffs/cost. Extreme case: it’s “a lot easier” to be “agentic” if you don’t care/selectively care about people/consequences, eg psychopaths.
Of course, it’s all complicated. This stuff is likely fairly contextual too, see: Cate post on willpower. idt character traits are infinitely general or specific, exactly.
holy shit yeah
I hadn’t considered that
This is a useful framing. I kinda model my stoner era as increasing my Self Knowledge at the cost of heavily decreasing my Path To Victory