The Age of Intelligence is changing a lot, for all of us.
I often receive feelings that challenge me to action philosophically – they come through the pit of my stomach, one might describe as the Holy Spirit. Before Jesus lived Socrates already had the name δαιμόνιον (theh-ee-MO-nee-on) for this feeling.
Often to meet the criteria of such feelings I need to frequently reground myself amidst the immense pace of change. While giving it my absolute all day-to-day, I must continue to hold space for balance between building for the future and living in today.
Acting on this feeling, I wrote the below Facebook post which I hope would help any young person in setting their north star for the future.
The quote from Albert Camus, means to me – the encapsulated burden, beauty and boldness required to be everything you can be, to everyone you can be it for.
Facebook: 26/10/25
You should live to the point of tears. – Albert Camus
On demands of the moment
At all times, the question you should ask yourself is;
if I was unable to change the course of today, how exactly would I live it to the fullest?
For those of us still tethered to our jobs, I hope you might say something like – I will smell the flowers I usually walk passed, I will smile the biggest smile and speak as tenderly as possible to my loved ones, I will set my eyes to the sky and marvel at the colour, the clouds, or the stars. I will dance to music and keep my attention present to the people I am sharing space with.
Perhaps you might go as far as pushing yourself to do something like; “Plant the seed, of a tree which others will get to sit in the shade.”
These would all be noble goals and they are a great place to start envisioning your last day. The responsibility you are gifted after such an exercise is in pushing your ability to contextualise a day, into several days and eventually into weeks strung together. Your appreciation and the goals should grow accordingly.
The dream state here would be for you to contextualise what could be your entire life and then to extend in addition to the lives of your community, then your city, country and world.
I could not live up to such greatness as that.
But it’s the most meaningful goal I could try for.
The Lesson of the Lamp
(Mark 4:21–25)
16 No one lights a lamp and covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light. 17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be made known and brought to light.
18 Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”
To build personal agency in the Age of Intelligence, my bets are on the comprehensivist.
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A Comprehensivist can:
Synthesize large amounts of information
Put a broad amount of knowledge into practice
What is a Comprehensivist?
Someone who’s great at several things, likely to make money in a way that’s inscrutable to the lay person.
This happens by combining skills, one by one, over a long period of time.
Keep in mind that: Most people are mediocre at most things, great at one thing, good enough at many things. Few become great at many things.
The lay person should choose a well-paid profession and specialize.
There is no arguing that the specialist doctor is better paid (and preferred) to the generalist doctor. But the generalist doctor is not a comprehensivist. The doctor who runs the entire clinic is a comprehensivist.
Ludvig Sunström: https://startgainingmomentum.com/comprehensivist/
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Unlocking the comprehensivist inside you requires an incredible up-shift in personal agency, you need to be generating massive action to realise such a feat.
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On Agency & Mindset
Actors are at the first level of awareness. They spend most of their time in their scripts, following beliefs that they have learned either consciously or sub-consciously.
Agents have been actors. They have since become aware of the scripts they’d previously been following and are now doing something about it.
Architects have been agents. They have created great personal change and, having ‘come through the minefield’, they have decided to do something about bringing other people with them.
They are no longer just creating change for themselves, they are designing change for others. They are teachers, inspiring actors to become agents and designing ways to do this more effectively. They are demonstrators rather than preachers, they are examples rather than precepts.
They operate at the level of creation, bringing more life to all through their demonstration of how to raise awareness. They operate in the ‘WE’ rather than the ‘ME’ and critically, architects show people how to do the same.
Tom Cassidy: https://medium.com/@tom.cassidy_40820/actors-agents-architects-where-do-you-see-yourself-f171ffdcc71f
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