Thing I should think about in the future: is this “enough” question even useful? What would it even mean to be “agentic/strategic enough?”
edit: Oh, this might be insidiously following from my thought around certain roles being especially important/impactful/high-status. It would make sense to consider myself as falling short if the goal were to be in the heavy tail for a particular role.
But this probably isn’t the goal. Probably the goal is to figure out my comparative advantage, because this is where my personal impact (how much good I, as an individual, can take responsibility for) and world impact (how much good this creates for the world) converges. In this case, there’s no such thing as “strategic enough”—if my comparative advantage doesn’t lie in strategy, that doesn’t mean I’m not “strategic enough” because I was never ‘meant to’ be in strategy anyway!
So the question isn’t, “Am I strategic enough?” But rather, “Am I more suited for strategy-heavy roles or strategy-light roles?”
Thing I should think about in the future: is this “enough” question even useful? What would it even mean to be “agentic/strategic enough?”
edit: Oh, this might be insidiously following from my thought around certain roles being especially important/impactful/high-status. It would make sense to consider myself as falling short if the goal were to be in the heavy tail for a particular role.
But this probably isn’t the goal. Probably the goal is to figure out my comparative advantage, because this is where my personal impact (how much good I, as an individual, can take responsibility for) and world impact (how much good this creates for the world) converges. In this case, there’s no such thing as “strategic enough”—if my comparative advantage doesn’t lie in strategy, that doesn’t mean I’m not “strategic enough” because I was never ‘meant to’ be in strategy anyway!
So the question isn’t, “Am I strategic enough?” But rather, “Am I more suited for strategy-heavy roles or strategy-light roles?”