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The CCTV Thought Experiment: You Are What You Do, Not What You Say
Imagine aliens installed a silent CCTV camera over your shoulder for 30 days, then compiled a report on what you actually value, based only on your calendar, your screen time, your purchases, and how you spend your evenings. Would you recognise yourself?
The Stoics put it bluntly: acta non verba. Actions, not words. What you do is what you believe. Everything else is commentary.
In this episode I lay out the Stoic CCTV protocol, a 7-day experiment that pairs old Stoic practice (prosoche, voluntary discomfort, the evening review) with a few modern tools (implementation intentions, friction…
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