Part II — Dimensions · 07

Choice, Agency & Self

The self enters the argument. If a leader is inside the current rather than above it, agency has to be described honestly: real, partial, and continuously formed by what it acts on.

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The question it turns on

How much of what you call choice is the current moving through you?

Concepts in this chapter

  • Agency
  • The self
  • Formation
  • Judgement

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Where the argument is contested

Too much emphasis on formation dissolves responsibility; too little produces the heroic leader the book rejects. The chapter holds both without resolving them.

To sit with

  • Where have you mistaken momentum for a decision?
  • What would you do differently if judgement were something you formed rather than possessed?

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