In my experience, I have a pretty strong and consistently internal locus of control and also am able to feel compelled to change systems that are wrong / suboptimal. (I.e. it feels like I avoid the caveat you describe.)
There’s a blurring between (having an internal locus of control) ~ (accepting things the way they are and just changing your attitude). This feels like Bucket Error territory.
I might try going a meta level up and realizing that I can prioritize which suboptimal / unfair systems are, in fact, worth trying to fix and choosing to (at least for now) accept the ones that I don’t have the resources to fix. (This includes a Growth Mindset into the Internal Locus of Control narrative.)
For each encounter of a suboptimal system, I can then think:
Gah, this is horrible… am I in a privileged position to fix this? Do I want to spend resources to fix this?
If yes, I make attempts to fix. If no, I realize this is a battle for others to fight (in which case I feel like I have personally delegated this task away from myself) or that I can fight the battle another day (in which case I have delegated this to my future self). And delegation counts as keeping an internal locus of control, at least for me. Maybe this isn’t true for others.
If delegation feels like losing your locus of control, I think this is a problem that can also be fixed too! Mostly by putting oneself in situations where trust+cooperation is the optimal move.
In my experience, I have a pretty strong and consistently internal locus of control and also am able to feel compelled to change systems that are wrong / suboptimal. (I.e. it feels like I avoid the caveat you describe.)
There’s a blurring between (having an internal locus of control) ~ (accepting things the way they are and just changing your attitude). This feels like Bucket Error territory.
I might try going a meta level up and realizing that I can prioritize which suboptimal / unfair systems are, in fact, worth trying to fix and choosing to (at least for now) accept the ones that I don’t have the resources to fix. (This includes a Growth Mindset into the Internal Locus of Control narrative.)
For each encounter of a suboptimal system, I can then think:
Gah, this is horrible… am I in a privileged position to fix this? Do I want to spend resources to fix this?
If yes, I make attempts to fix.
If no, I realize this is a battle for others to fight (in which case I feel like I have personally delegated this task away from myself) or that I can fight the battle another day (in which case I have delegated this to my future self).
And delegation counts as keeping an internal locus of control, at least for me. Maybe this isn’t true for others.
If delegation feels like losing your locus of control, I think this is a problem that can also be fixed too! Mostly by putting oneself in situations where trust+cooperation is the optimal move.