You gotta be understanding who you are and where you're at in life right now. You absolutely have to be figuring out how you can increase your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behaviors as well as your faith in your ability to handle a wide range of tasks and situations.

Agencymaxxing happens through doing things. You can think all you want and theorycraft the Perfect Method of Agencymaxxing, but you can't be sure it'll survive the gauntlet of reality until you do something and see how it goes.

"But I don't want to." Great! Don't! Exert your agency by closing this page and doing what you want to do instead! It's called I do a little Xanatos Gambit.

This is all I have to say about this! But I'm always fascinated by how I have less to say than other essayists so I'm going to exert my agency and keep typing. A different essayist might talk about how they've been agencymaxxing, but I don't want to talk about that, not yet.

When you're agencymaxxing, others become more interested in helping you because you're a good investment. You, the agencymaxxer, apply a multiplier to others' help so that their help goes further than if they applied that help to someone who wastes it by not helping themself. People like when their help makes a meaningful difference and they don't like when their help goes to waste.

When you're agencymaxxing, you're better able to help those around you increase their agency, who become better able to help those around them increase their agency, and on and on an on anon anon.

When you're agencymaxxing, you have a more expansive experience of life because you see more possibilities, and you can only ever pursue things that you recognize as possibilities.

When you're agencymaxxing, you recognize that increasing your agency in a steady and sustainable manner is better than hyperincreasing your agency and subsequently burning out, decreasing your agency.

When you're agencymaxxing, you participate in a grand tradition carried out by your favorite historical figures. They agencymaxxed their way into the history books. What will you do with your one wild and agentic life?