It’s easy to forget that everyone is doing life for the first time. We all start out with no knowledge of the world, and as a result, we’re reliant on stories, ambitions and explanations that other people give us—until we experience things for ourselves.
What happens when your new experiences give you no choice but to question who you’ve been up until that point? What do you do when you start to feel like old habits, interests or even people don’t suit you anymore?
This episode’s stories show the power of making your own choices in the face of these questions. While trusting your judgment for the first time can be scary, it’s necessary for understanding who you want to be and forging who you are.
We interview Adriana Termeer, a former ballet dancer turned whale enthusiast and a junior in college and Dr. Joseph Hartman, a DC-area native who teaches constitutional law at Georgetown University and holds a PhD in Political Theory. Both share stories of how they learned to carve out who they are from the environment they grew up in, navigating which parts to keep and which to let go.
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