Authentic Living - Episode 8

How do your experiences of intelligent frugality relate to your self-awareness and self-knowledge?

You may associate the acquisition of cultural capital with the position of a person in a social hierarchy, yet truly valuable cultural capital allows a person to transcend, and escape, those hierarchies entirely.

What have you been learning about your self and identity this year, and for what reasons?

How, if at all, is your self-concept related to your self-consciousness?

Do you suffer from social anxiety?

Have you felt coerced into being part of a collective identity not truly of your own choosing?

What is your current self-image and how realistic is it?

How much of your self-confidence is associated with the real you rather than with inauthentic versions of yourself?

How have you attempted to transcend any unjustly imposed limits of social class?

Authentic Living - Episode 7

As being authentic is not about seeking approval, it may sometimes be mistaken for seeking disapproval.

Do you usually associate authenticity with feeling comfortable with yourself?

Authentic Living - Episode 6

How do you know whether your practices of authentic living are consistently compatible with moral responsibility?

Authentic Living - Episode 5

Being true to yourself is likely to require abstinence from all activities incompatible with your true self.

You are probably already aware that intelligent frugality is associated mainly with temperance rather than asceticism.

How do you usually establish goals, aims, objectives and a sense of purpose?

How do you intend to make the world a much better place than it would be without you this year?