What situational agency is is the power to control your circumstances to for example move temptations like a cell phone out of reach and out of sight. It is smarter not just to work on the behavior directly but in fact to change the situation that encourages that behavior.
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Claire Vo
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North Whitehead — An Introduction to Mathematics
Life might be a race against time, but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires pause. The converse of Socrates's famous admonition is that the examined life just might be worth living.
Maria Popova