Today's episode teaches Julian Rotter's locus of control — the idea that where you locate the cause of what happens to you shapes nearly everything about how you act and persist. You'll hear how the research holds up across decades of studies, what James Stockdale's years as a prisoner of war reveal about agency under real constraint, and why the model matters most when life feels most out of your hands. The one action for today: pick a frustration you've been treating as fixed, and find the one move that's yours to make.
Key Topics: locus of control, Julian Rotter, agency, self-efficacy, action, resilience, mental models, behavior change
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Today's episode teaches Julian Rotter's locus of control — the idea that where you locate the cause of what happens to you shapes nearly everything about how you act and persist. You'll hear how the research holds up across decades of studies, what James 

Today's episode teaches Julian Rotter's locus of control — the idea that where you locate the cause of what happens to you shapes nearly everything about how you act and persist. You'll hear how the research holds up across decades of studies, what James Stockdale's years as a prisoner of war reveal about agency under real constraint, and why the model matters most when life feels most out of your hands. The one action for today: pick a frustration you've been treating as fixed, and find the one move that's yours to make.

Episode 162: Locus of Control

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