As Nadia Asparouhova writes: If “grit” – the desire to persevere when faced with a challenge, popularized by psychologist Angela Duckworth – has been the human trait du jour of the last fifteen-odd years, I suspect that “agency” – a belief in one’s ability to influence their circumstances – could be the defining trait of the next generation. Grit is the node’s eye’s view. You are struggling against the graph. Agency, on the other hand, is the view from the graph. You are the graph. By changing it, you are changing yourself. (View Highlight)