Coaching practices for Authentic Choice Sartre

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I’m facing a real decision and I realize I’m about to choose what my family or my role or "what one does" expects of me, not what I actually value
  • When a genuinely open choice is in front of me
  • There’s a decision I keep half-defending with a fog of "well, the circumstances, the other people, what else could I have done"
  • I describe my life in "I have to" and "I have no choice," and it lets me off the hook
  • I keep saying "that’s just who I am"

Practices that may help

  1. Choose authentically — from your own values, not from expectation
    Make choices that reflect your actual values rather than the role others have assigned you.
    Existentialism and Radical Choice
  2. Existentialism and Radical Choice
    Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism holds that human beings have no fixed nature — "existence precedes essence" — and are therefore radically free to define themselves through their choices. The practical implication is that you cannot hide behind role, instinct, or circumstance: you are always already choosing, including when you tell yourself you have no choice. This is philosophical rather than clinical; its overlap with ACT and CBT is real but indirect.
  3. Sit with the anxiety of freedom
    When the weight of choice produces vertigo, use it as a signal — not a problem to escape.
    Existentialism and Radical Choice
  4. Take radical responsibility for your choices
    Own every choice completely — including its unintended consequences and the unchosen conditions within which you chose.
    Existentialism and Radical Choice
  5. Spot bad faith in yourself
    Notice when you are treating yourself as a thing determined by role, instinct, or expectation — and claim the choice.
    Existentialism and Radical Choice
  6. Take seriously that you have no fixed nature
    Stop treating your personality, role, or past as a given — you are always in the process of defining yourself.
    Existentialism and Radical Choice
  7. Define yourself by actions, not intentions
    You are not your intentions or your self-image — you are the accumulation of what you actually do.
    Existentialism and Radical Choice
  8. Commit to lucidity about your situation
    Resist the comfort of illusion — see your situation clearly, even where it is difficult, and act from that clarity.
    Absurdism and the Practice of Meaning Despite
  9. Build meaning through concrete love and solidarity
    Camus locates the best available meaning in care for specific people — not in grand ideologies or metaphysical certainties.
    Absurdism and the Practice of Meaning Despite
  10. Act as if sages were watching — the practice of the philosophical community
    Before any action, ask: would a person I genuinely respect — who embodies the values I aspire to — approve of this?
    Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises

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