Are You Just Playing a Role?The trap of becoming the character you perform.

From the show

Living Thought Experiments

Explore Jean-Paul Sartre's concept of 'bad faith' to understand the roles we perform in daily life. Through his famous example of a café waiter, we see how fully embodying a social identity can be a form of self-deception, a denial of our radical freedom to be otherwise. This insight is a prompt to examine your own life. Recognizing the parts you 'play-act' is the first step toward living more authentically and choosing who you want to be, beyond any script.