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Three Psychological Capacities that Empower Human Agency

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Clay Routledge
Mar 14, 2025
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I grew up doing martial arts, and one of the best lessons my instructor taught his students is to not talk in ways that create mental barriers to self-improvement. When struggling to become proficient in a new technique, if a student said "I can't do it," he or she would be told to drop and do a set of pushups. The wo…

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