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I think part of the answer is to think about people like young kids and babies that don't have much agency, because people seem to be more willing to do this.

A while ago, I got to work with a design agency, Berg, on an exploration of what the Internet without screens might actually look like.

Next I worked with the Japanese agency, AQ, on a research project into mental health.

I was tired of the vicious cycle, and I was tired of it even in the beloved agency in the department that I still love today.

Now at this point, the agency responsible, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, could have kept pouring money into the failing program.

The dedicated civil servants inside the agency decided to stand up and call for change.

And that team jumped in, side-by-side, to support the agency in transitioning this project into more modern business practices, more modern development practices.

I became a partner at a big New York ad agency.

So basically, what I'm saying is a couple of dirt-bag comedians took on a major New York City agency and the comedians won.

Eventually, we can see if we will have all of our human senses employed, and we will have agency to live the story in any path we choose.

It's a weather-based insurance agency, and what these countries do is to pay insurance each year, about 3 million dollars a year of their own resources, so that in the event they have a difficult drought situation or flood, this money will be paid out to them, which they can then use to take care of their populations, instead of waiting for aid to come.

But when they were a bit older, they took a little agency and decided to engage.

You should have grit; you should have perseverance; you should take agency over your learning.

Now, a lot of skeptics might say, well, hey, this is all great, philosophically, this whole idea of mastery-based learning and its connection to mindset, students taking agency over their learning.

One, the students can actually master the concepts, but they're also building their growth mindset, they're building grit, perseverance, they're taking agency over their learning.

I really think that this is all based on the idea that if we let people tap into their potential by mastering concepts, by being able to exercise agency over their learning, that they can get there.

Right now, Syrian refugees are flooding into Greece, and the UN refugee agency, they have their hands full.

Well, there's also another program, in another agency within our government, in ocean exploration.

A United Nations agency decided to address a serious problem: poor sanitation in schools in rural India.

But in my view, this is profoundly problematic for the intergovernmental agency, an agency that has a mission to promote sustainable living.

And in order to solve one public health problem, the agency is sowing the seeds of another.

All the same elements of imagination and symbolism are there, but they're just partnered with player agency and system responsiveness.

It's not just taking away our agency to spend our attention and live the lives that we want, it's changing the way that we have our conversations, it's changing our democracy, and it's changing our ability to have the conversations and relationships we want with each other.

It provides financial agency, economic security to take risk and shield against loss.

Although the characters eventually come to their senses, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" raises the question of how much agency we have over our own daily lives.

The conditions that cause us to define certain neighborhoods as slums can be effectively improved, but not without recognizing the humanity and the agency of the people living in them.

But that's an incomplete picture, because what's more important is that they had factors in their lives that helped to influence their agency, or their specific capacity to actually overcome the obstacles that they were facing and navigate the system given their circumstances.

If schools were able to think about the agency that their students have and bring to the table when they push them, what students learn can become more relevant to their lives, and then they can tap into those internal reservoirs of grit and character.

So even though he will rely a lot on his grit to get him through that first-year law school grind, I'll be there as a mentor for him, check in with him from time to time, maybe take him out to get some curry ... (Laughter) so that he can keep growing his agency to succeed even more.

While the Trafalmadorians may be at peace with their lack of agency, Vonnegut’s human characters are still getting used to it.

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