You Can Just Do Things

Extraordinary results don't require genius or grit – they require agency, and anyone can build it

What if the real difference between people who achieve extraordinary things and those who don’t isn’t intelligence, wealth or hard work – but agency?

In You Can Just Do Things, Cate Hall offers a practical, electrifying guide to building higher agency in every corner of your life. Drawing from her own astonishing journey and the stories of others, Hall distils the mindset and habits that turn constraints into choices, failure into fuel, and setbacks into opportunities.

More than a self-help manual, this is a playbook for self-authorship – showing you how to engineer your own story, pursue bold action and stop waiting for permission.

About the author

Cate Hall is a former Supreme Court lawyer, world-ranked poker player, and recovering addict turned CEO of the $3 billion Astera Institute, where she funds visionary science and technology projects. Her viral Substack essay on agency, How to Be More Agentic, has been praised by thought-leaders like James Clear and Nate Silver, and inspired her upcoming TED Talk.