Episode notes
An old man in Athens was offered his life if he would stop asking one question. He chose to die instead. The question: are you actually living your life, or just sleeping through it? This episode is about the most dangerous mode a man can live in — autopilot.
In this episode of Being a Man, we confront how capable men accumulate lives they never actually chose, one reasonable step at a time. Through Socrates, who told the jury of Athens that "the unexamined life is not worth living" and meant it enough to die for it, we look at how to wake up at the wheel. Autopilot feels like living: you are busy, needed, in motion, and none of it has required a real decision in years. Socrates' challenge is not to tear your life down. The man who examines his life is not obligated to change it. He is obligated to choose it.
In this episode:
- How reasonable steps quietly assemble into an unchosen life
- Why autopilot happens to the most capable men, not the least
- Socrates and the unexamined life: what he meant, and what it cost him
- The difference between changing your life and choosing it
- One small practice: putting a single default on trial this week
This is for the man whose life looks right and feels rented. For every founder, executive, husband, and father who has ever sat at a red light and wondered how he got here. If you are asking bigger questions about purpose and intentional living, start here.
Being a Man is a weekly podcast on modern manhood, ancient wisdom, and purpose, hosted by Maurizio Rosini, founder of MyMasterMan, a global brotherhood and coaching movement for men who are done carrying it alone.
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