What Cate Hall thinks about motivation

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Former Supreme Court litigator and the top-ranked female poker player in the world, later co-founder and COO of the pandemic-medicine company Alvea. Writes at Useful Fictions about agency, and turned the essay quoted here into the book "You Can Just Do Things".

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1. 10 Jan 2024

   Our readingA drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out.

   Their wordsBurnout is the ultimate agency-killer. This is so true that I’ve learned to identify a reduction in agency as one of the first signs of burnout, one that shows up even before I consciously realize what’s happening.

   ↗How to be more agenticusefulfictions.substack.com 8th of 9 in this piece