Summary: Cate Hall, a former professional poker player, lawyer, and medical startup cofounder, shares her tips on how to become a high agency person and exert more control over your life. She believes that anyone can learn to be more agentic by finding real edges, seeking real feedback, increasing their surface area for luck, assuming everything is learnable, learning to love the moat of low status, and not working too hard. Agency is a skill that can be learned and has built the world around us.
To succeed as a startup founder is, in many ways, to be a high agency person—someone who finds a way to get what they want done, who bends reality to their will, no matter the circumstances. Cate Hall is a former professional poker player, lawyer, and medical startup cofounder (among other accomplishments) who was able to do all of these things because of her own high agency. The good news: She believes that anyone can learn how to exert more control over their lives. Read her tips to learn how to be the master of your own fate. —Kate Lee (View Highlight)
