This year, let's turn inward first, then outward again, with a stronger locus of control.

2025: The Year of Agency
By Max Borders

This year, let's turn inward first, then outward again, with a stronger locus of control.
Locus of control refers to an individual's belief regarding the extent to which they can control and influence future events. It is categorized as internal when individuals believe they have the power to shape their own future through their actions, and external when they attribute control to outside forces like luck, fate, or other people.

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Much of the West has fallen victim to cultures that seek to externalize one’s locus of control. Without that locus of control, finding scapegoats and villains around every corner is too easy. This is an invitation for a few of us to reclaim our agency.

I recognize that 2024 was a year in which we collectively scrutinized so many of humanity’s evils—as the contours of depraved power syndicates were revealed.

But 2025 is the year we seize control—not of others but of ourselves.
* It’s too easy to chase comfort, whether one more bite, one more video, or one more degree of re-circulated air.
* It’s too easy to blame the migrants, the partisans, the oligarchs, the healthcare system, the education system, systemic racism/sexism, or MAGA.
* It’s too easy to withdraw into the digital world and become a society of house cats—fat, lazy, weak, and quick to yowl demands of others.

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