Who Wrote Your Script? The Stoic Guide to Authentic Living
About this episode
This episode explores the concept of authentic living and the influences that shape our choices.
How much of the life you are living was actually chosen by you? In this episode of the Via Stoica Podcast, we explore authentic living: the practice of examining the scripts inherited from parents, culture, school, and social media, and deciding for the first time which ones are genuinely yours. Welcome to the Via Stoica Podcast, the podcast on Stoicism. This episode invites you to look honestly at the voices shaping your choices, not to blame them, but to see them clearly and to begin living from your own values rather than someone else's story. Most of us were handed a script before we could read it. Family wrote the early lines. School added more. Culture and religion filled in the gaps. And now social media rewrites it daily: feeding you someone else's version of success, happiness, and what a good life looks like. The Stoics called the faculty of conscious choice prohairesis, the one thing that has always been yours. Most people spend their entire lives using it to fulfil someone else's vision without ever noticing. This episode of the Via Stoica Podcast asks one of the most important questions in Stoic philosophy and in life: who wrote your script and why are you still…
People in this episode
Host: Benny Voncken
Topics covered
- authentic living
- Stoicism
- personal values
- social media influence
- self-examination
Keywords
- Stoicism
- authentic living
- personal values
- social media
- self-examination
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Badmic.com
Books & works: Via Stoica Podcast, How to Stop Living Someone Else's Life
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