Welcome to another Bonus Edition of the MTB podcast—a segment of the weekly episode that I call Afterthoughts! This is my favorite part of these weekly presentations because it gives me a chance to dig a little deeper into something that came up during the main episode.
In this week’s main episode, we talked a lot about the importance of choosing your values on purpose—not just inheriting them and assuming they’re right. And that got us thinking about a bigger question that’s honestly kind of unsettling if you sit with it for too long: How much of what you believe is truly yours? Like, did you choose it… or did it just kind of happen to you?
Now, let’s be real—none of us popped out of the womb with a fully formed moral framework and a carefully considered worldview. We absorb a lot from our surroundings without even realizing it. Culture, religion, family, society—all of it hands us a set of ideas… before we even know how to spell the word “idea.” And to be fair, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It gives us a framework to function in a very complicated world. Imagine trying to figure out everything from scratch. No, thanks!
But here’s the deal: those inherited beliefs are only meant to be a starting point—not a final destination. At some point, we have to pause and ask, “Do these beliefs still serve me? Are they even mine? And do they line up with who I want to be?”
That’s what we’re digging into today—as Carl Jung would say, how to start making the unconscious conscious. Not in some spooky, late-night Ouija Board kind of way, but in a grounded, real-life way that can help us build a values-based life that actually makes sense.
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