#919 - George Mack - How To Take Control Of Your Own Destiny

In school, if you copy people, you're punished and given a detention. In life, if you copy people, you're labeled a successful franchisee owner.

One of the fundamental beliefs, I think, around high agency is that all problems are solvable. And once you begin to take that on board, as long as it doesn't defy the laws of physics... All problems are solvable with enough knowledge.

We have the US Department of Education on the low agency end, which, something around 20 to 30 thousand dollars, they spend on students per year, and they are ranked as the highest in the world—the US spends on education. Meanwhile, they're ranked between 20th and 35th, both literacy and numeracy. So spending so much money getting so little out of it.

It's a wild start of something along the lines of over 50% of Americans have lower than six grade literacy.

The way to identify the highest agency person in your life is if you woke up... in a third-world prison cell, and you have a phone passed under your door, and you can call one person to try and get you out of there, who is that?

This is actually the most simple way of defining high agency is are they happening to life or his life happening to them?

It's not the problems don't happen; it's the fundamentally all problems are solvable.