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Agency can improve through practice, mistakes, and introspection
Agency can improve through practice, mistakes, and introspection
Tan rejects the idea that agency is purely innate, using his own career mistakes to argue that people can reflect on failures, change their reasoning, and make better choices later.
- Interview
- Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- Speaker
- Garry Tan
- Topic
- Agency and Learning
- Source timestamp
- 20:38
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