WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST?

Jonah Whitmore
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WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? A psychological fiction podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice — and the stories we tell ourselves. Each episode begins with a question: What if you couldn't trust your own memories? Memory can change. Evidence can disappear. Choices can be influenced. And sometimes the truth is the one thing you were never meant to remember. For readers and listeners drawn to psychological science fiction, thrillers, dark philosophical fiction, and thought experiments about what makes us who we are.

  1. 15h ago

    Why Do You Believe You Are a Good Person? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 05

    “Sometimes the hardest person to be honest with is the person you believe yourself to be.” — Jonah Whitmore What makes you believe you are a good person? Perhaps you try to help others. You keep your promises. You care about the people close to you. You don't deliberately hurt anyone. But how do you judge yourself when your actions contradict the person you believe yourself to be? In the fifth episode of Season 2, we explore the way we judge our own moral character — and the stories we tell ourselves to protect our image. We often judge ourselves by our intentions, while other people experience the consequences of our actions. We explain our mistakes, defend our decisions, and sometimes find reasons why we couldn't have acted differently. But what if genuine self-knowledge begins when we stop defending our image and start examining our choices? • Why we need to see ourselves as good people• The difference between intentions and consequences• How we justify actions that contradict our values• Why other people may remember us differently• Whether one mistake defines our character• What it means to take responsibility without condemning ourselves• Why moral growth requires honest self-examination When was the last time you questioned whether you were truly right — or simply wanted to believe you were? And would you rather protect your image of yourself or discover the truth about who you are? Why Do You Believe You Are a Good Person?Season 2 · Episode 05 · Self-Perception WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? is a psychological podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice. A series about the questions we rarely ask ourselves — and the answers we may not be ready to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO AM I, REALLY? An Inquiry into Personal Identity What makes you the same person over time? Explore the questions that shape our understanding of who we are. Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/WHO-AM-REALLY-Personal-Identity-ebook/dp/B0HP6ZML68 Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/MPkqi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MEMORY INVESTIGATIONThe Practical Workbook for Exploring Your Memories A practical workbook for examining memories and exploring how experiences shape your understanding of yourself. Publica: https://publica.now/creators/jonahwhitmore-author/works/the-memory-investigation-the-practical-workbook-for-exploring-your-memories Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/EfCj5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MEMORY EDITORhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHJ25SQ2 THE FIRST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHHHGBQ2 THE LAST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ24CPP1 THE UNCHOSENhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJCYXRRY THE MEMORY THAT REMAINEDhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZH5RM7 Complete book catalog:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/jonah-whitmore-books-official/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Listen and follow the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7qrqsjArnmJeQOdeGsJbxg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-you-trust/id6818862637 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NeonReflexLoop PlayPodcast: https://www.playpodcast.net/ Best Podcasts UK: https://www.bestpodcasts.co.uk/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCOVER JONAH WHITMORE Official website: https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/ Written and created by Jonah Whitmore. You may be a better person than you think. But are you honest enough to question the person you believe yourself to be? What would you trust? #WhatWouldYouTrust #JonahWhitmore #SelfPerception #MoralPsychology #SelfKnowledge #PersonalIdentity #Psychology #Podcast

    Why Do You Believe You Are a Good Person? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 05

  2. 2d ago

    What If Your Personality Is Just a Story? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 04

    “The stories we tell ourselves about who we are can become the walls that keep us from discovering who we could be.” — Jonah Whitmore What if your personality is not who you are, but a story you have learned to believe? You say you're shy. You're ambitious. You're a careful person who doesn't take risks. These descriptions feel like facts. But where did they come from? Perhaps someone described you that way when you were young. Perhaps one experience changed how you saw yourself. Or perhaps you repeated the same explanation for so long that it became part of your identity. And now, without noticing, you live according to a story written years ago. In the fourth episode of Season 2, we explore how the stories we tell ourselves shape our sense of identity — and how familiar labels can become invisible limitations. Because a description can become an expectation. An expectation can become a limitation. And eventually, we may mistake that limitation for our nature. • How we build stories about who we are• Why familiar labels become part of our identity• How memories reinforce our beliefs about ourselves• Why we notice evidence that confirms our self-image• How our personality can change across situations and experiences• Why we sometimes resist evidence that challenges our identity• Whether we can rewrite the story we tell ourselves If the story you've told yourself about who you are turned out to be wrong, would you have the courage to rewrite it? And who might you become if you stopped believing that you had to remain the same person? What If Your Personality Is Just a Story? Season 2 · Episode 04 · Self-Perception WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? is a psychological podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice. A series about the questions we rarely ask ourselves — and the answers we may not be ready to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO AM I, REALLY? An Inquiry into Personal Identity What makes you the same person over time? Explore the questions that shape our understanding of who we are. Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/WHO-AM-REALLY-Personal-Identity-ebook/dp/B0HP6ZML68 Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/MPkqi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MEMORY INVESTIGATION The Practical Workbook for Exploring Your Memories A practical workbook for examining memories and exploring how experiences shape your understanding of yourself. Publica: https://publica.now/creators/jonahwhitmore-author/works/the-memory-investigation-the-practical-workbook-for-exploring-your-memories Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/EfCj5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MEMORY EDITOR https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHJ25SQ2 THE FIRST ARCHIVE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHHHGBQ2 THE LAST ARCHIVE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ24CPP1 THE UNCHOSEN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJCYXRRY THE MEMORY THAT REMAINED https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZH5RM7 Complete book catalog: https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/jonah-whitmore-books-official/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Listen and follow the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7qrqsjArnmJeQOdeGsJbxg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-you-trust/id6818862637 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NeonReflexLoop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCOVER JONAH WHITMORE Official website: https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/ Written and created by Jonah Whitmore. You are more than the labels you carry. But are you ready to question the story that made you who you are? What would you trust? #WhatWouldYouTrust #JonahWhitmore #SelfPerception #PersonalIdentity #SelfKnowledge #Psychology #Consciousness #Podcast

    What If Your Personality Is Just a Story? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 04

  3. 6d ago

    Are You the Person You Think You Are? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 03

    What if the person you believe yourself to be is only a version of yourself — carefully built from memories, explanations, and things you prefer to believe? You think you are honest. But do you remember every time you avoided the truth? You consider yourself patient. But how do you behave when someone tests your limits? You believe you are a good person. But what happens when your actions contradict that belief? We all carry an image of ourselves. It tells us who we are, what we value, and how we behave. But is that image based on reality — or on the story we have learned to tell ourselves? In the third episode of Season 2, we explore the gap between self-image and actual behavior. Because believing you know yourself is not the same as seeing yourself clearly. And sometimes, the person you are most reluctant to question is yourself. • Why we build stories about who we are• How our memories protect our self-image• Why intentions don't always match behavior• What difficult situations reveal about our character• Why different sides of our personality emerge in different situations• How repeated choices can reveal more than our own explanations• What it means to accept the parts of ourselves we would rather ignore If your actions repeatedly contradicted the person you believe yourself to be, which would you trust — your image of yourself or the evidence of your own behavior? And are you ready to discover that you may not know yourself as well as you think? Are You the Person You Think You Are? Season 2 · Episode 03 · Self-Perception WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? is a psychological podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice. A series about the questions we rarely ask ourselves — and the answers we may not be ready to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO AM I, REALLY? An Inquiry into Personal Identity What makes you the same person over time? Explore the questions that shape our understanding of who we are. Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/WHO-AM-REALLY-Personal-Identity-ebook/dp/B0HP6ZML68 Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/MPkqi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MEMORY INVESTIGATION The Practical Workbook for Exploring Your Memories A practical workbook for examining memories and exploring how experiences shape your understanding of yourself. Publica: https://publica.now/creators/jonahwhitmore-author/works/the-memory-investigation-the-practical-workbook-for-exploring-your-memories Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/EfCj5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MEMORY EDITOR https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHJ25SQ2 THE FIRST ARCHIVE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHHHGBQ2 THE LAST ARCHIVE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ24CPP1 THE UNCHOSEN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJCYXRRY THE MEMORY THAT REMAINED https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZH5RM7 Complete book catalog: https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/jonah-whitmore-books-official/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Listen and follow the podcast: PlayPodcast: https://www.playpodcast.net/ Best Podcasts UK: https://www.bestpodcasts.co.uk/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7qrqsjArnmJeQOdeGsJbxg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-you-trust/id6818862637 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NeonReflexLoop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCOVER JONAH WHITMORE Official website: https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/ Written and created by Jonah Whitmore. The person you think you are. The person your actions reveal. And the truth you may have been avoiding. What would you trust? #WhatWouldYouTrust #JonahWhitmore #SelfPerception #SelfKnowledge #PersonalIdentity #Psychology #Consciousness #Podcast

    Are You the Person You Think You Are? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 03

  4. Oct 30

    What If You See Yourself Differently Than Everyone Else? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 02

    What if the person you believe yourself to be is not the person everyone else experiences? You think you are being honest. Someone else experiences you as cruel. You believe you are helping. They feel controlled. You see yourself as patient, confident, or independent. But what do other people see when they look at you? In the second episode of Season 2, we explore the gap between our own self-image and the way others experience us. Because knowing your intentions is not the same as understanding your impact. And sometimes, the most difficult person to see clearly is yourself. • Why our intentions can differ from other people's experiences• How self-perception creates blind spots• Why we call our own behavior by different names• Whether other people's opinions can reveal something we cannot see• How to distinguish useful feedback from an unfair judgment• What happens when the person you believe yourself to be contradicts the person others describe If everyone who knows you described you differently than you describe yourself, would you trust your own understanding — or would you begin to question it? And what would you be most afraid to discover? What If You See Yourself Differently Than Everyone Else?Season 2 · Episode 02 · Self-Perception WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? is a psychological podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice. A series about the questions we rarely ask ourselves — and the answers we may not be ready to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO AM I, REALLY?An Inquiry into Personal Identity What makes you the same person over time? Explore the questions that shape our understanding of who we are. Amazon Kindle:https://www.amazon.com/WHO-AM-REALLY-Personal-Identity-ebook/dp/B0HP6ZML68 Payhip:https://payhip.com/b/MPkqi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MEMORY INVESTIGATIONThe Practical Workbook for Exploring Your Memories A practical workbook for examining memories and exploring how experiences shape your understanding of yourself. Publica:https://publica.now/creators/jonahwhitmore-author/works/the-memory-investigation-the-practical-workbook-for-exploring-your-memories Payhip:https://payhip.com/b/EfCj5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MEMORY EDITORhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHJ25SQ2 THE FIRST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHHHGBQ2 THE LAST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ24CPP1 THE UNCHOSENhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJCYXRRY THE MEMORY THAT REMAINEDhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZH5RM7 Complete book catalog:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/jonah-whitmore-books-official/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Listen and follow the podcast: PlayPodcast:⁠https://www.playpodcast.net/⁠ Best Podcasts UK:⁠https://www.bestpodcasts.co.uk/⁠ Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/7qrqsjArnmJeQOdeGsJbxg Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-you-trust/id6818862637 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@NeonReflexLoop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCOVER JONAH WHITMORE Official website:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/ Written and created by Jonah Whitmore. The person you believe yourself to be. The person others believe you are. And the truth somewhere between the two. What would you trust? #WhatWouldYouTrust #JonahWhitmore #SelfPerception #SelfKnowledge #PersonalIdentity #Psychology #Consciousness #Podcast

    What If You See Yourself Differently Than Everyone Else? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 02

  5. Oct 29

    Do You Really Know Yourself? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 01

    You believe you know yourself. But what if the person you understand the least is yourself? In the opening episode of Season 2, we explore the gap between who we believe we are and what our actions reveal about us. Why do we explain away our mistakes? Can we distinguish an honest explanation from an excuse? And what happens when our actions contradict the values we claim to hold? Perhaps knowing yourself isn't about achieving complete certainty. Perhaps it begins with questioning the story you tell yourself. IN THIS EPISODE • How we construct stories about our own character• Why knowing what you do isn't the same as knowing why• How self-image influences our interpretation of choices• The difference between self-knowledge and certainty• Whether we're willing to question our beliefs about ourselves QUESTION FOR YOU If you discovered that your understanding of yourself was wrong, would you change who you are — or what you believe? ABOUT THIS EPISODE Do You Really Know Yourself?Season 2 · Episode 01 · Self-Perception WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? is a psychological podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPLORE PERSONAL IDENTITY WHO AM I, REALLY?An Inquiry into Personal Identity What makes you the same person over time? Explore the questions that shape our understanding of who we are. Amazon Kindle:https://www.amazon.com/WHO-AM-REALLY-Personal-Identity-ebook/dp/B0HP6ZML68 Payhip:https://payhip.com/b/MPkqi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPLORE YOUR OWN MEMORIES THE MEMORY INVESTIGATIONThe Practical Workbook for Exploring Your Memories A practical workbook for examining memories and exploring how experiences shape your understanding of yourself. Publica:https://publica.now/creators/jonahwhitmore-author/works/the-memory-investigation-the-practical-workbook-for-exploring-your-memories Payhip:https://payhip.com/b/EfCj5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOKS BY JONAH WHITMORE THE MEMORY EDITORhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHJ25SQ2 THE FIRST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHHHGBQ2 THE LAST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ24CPP1 THE UNCHOSENhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJCYXRRY THE MEMORY THAT REMAINEDhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZH5RM7 Complete book catalog:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/jonah-whitmore-books-official/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LISTEN TO WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/7qrqsjArnmJeOQdeGsJbxg Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-you-trust/id6818862637 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@NeonReflexLoop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCOVER JONAH WHITMORE Official author website:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/ Written and created by Jonah Whitmore. The person you believe yourself to be. The stories you tell yourself. The truth you may not yet be ready to see. What would you trust? #WhatWouldYouTrust #JonahWhitmore #SelfKnowledge #PersonalIdentity #Psychology #Consciousness #Identity

    Do You Really Know Yourself? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Season 2, Episode 01

  6. Oct 23

    If You Couldn't Trust Your Memories, Would You Trust Your Choices? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Episode 30

    What if you couldn't fully trust your memories — but still had to decide what to do next? Throughout our lives, we use memories to understand who we are, whom we trust, and what we believe is possible. Our past experiences help shape our choices. But what happens when the stories we rely on are incomplete, uncertain, or open to another interpretation? In the Season 1 finale of WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST?, we bring together the central questions of memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice. How much of the person you believe yourself to be is shaped by the memories you carry? Can you learn from the past without allowing it to control your future? And can you make meaningful choices without having absolute certainty about why you think and feel the way you do? IN THIS EPISODE • How memories shape the stories we tell about ourselves• Why certainty doesn't always mean we have the complete picture• The relationship between past experiences and present choices• How to question old beliefs without dismissing your experiences• What personal responsibility means when we don't control everything that shapes us• Whether we can choose differently without resolving every question about the past You don't need to distrust every memory. You don't need to solve every mystery about yourself. Perhaps the goal is to become more thoughtful about what you believe, more open to what you may have misunderstood, and more willing to reconsider the stories that shape your life. QUESTION FOR YOU If you couldn't fully trust your memories, would you trust your choices? Share your perspective in the episode poll or comments. There is no single answer — and sometimes the questions we ask ourselves matter as much as the answers we find. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPLORE YOUR OWN MEMORIES THE MEMORY INVESTIGATIONThe Practical Workbook for Exploring Your Memories A practical workbook with exercises for examining your memories, reflecting on your interpretations, and exploring how past experiences shape your understanding of yourself. The goal isn't to assume that your memories are false. It's to look at them more thoughtfully. Publica: https://publica.now/creators/jonahwhitmore-author/works/the-memory-investigation-the-practical-workbook-for-exploring-your-memories Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/EfCj5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOKS BY JONAH WHITMORE THE MEMORY EDITORhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHJ25SQ2 THE FIRST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHHHGBQ2 THE LAST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ24CPP1 THE UNCHOSENhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJCYXRRY THE MEMORY THAT REMAINEDhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZH5RM7 Explore the complete book catalog:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/jonah-whitmore-books-official/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LISTEN TO WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7qrqsjArnmJeOQdeGsJbxg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-you-trust/id6818862637 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NeonReflexLoop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE SHOW WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? is a psychological podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice. Through questions about the mind and human experience, the show examines how we understand ourselves, how we interpret the past, and how we make decisions when certainty is impossible. DISCOVER JONAH WHITMORE Official author website:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/ Written and created by Jonah Whitmore. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SEASON 1 FINALE — EPISODE 30 The memories you carry.The beliefs you question.The choices you make. And the person you may still become. #WhatWouldYouTrust #Memory #Identity #Consciousness #Choice

    If You Couldn't Trust Your Memories, Would You Trust Your Choices? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Episode 30

  7. Oct 22

    What If You Remember Choosing Something You Never Chose? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Episode 29

    What if you clearly remember making an important choice… but you never actually made it? You remember the conversation. You remember your reasons. You remember the moment you decided to walk away, say no, or leave something behind. But what if the choice you remember was never yours? In Episode 29 of WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST?, we explore the unsettling relationship between memory, personal responsibility, and the choices we believe define us. Imagine discovering evidence that contradicts a decision you have remembered for years. You were certain you made the choice yourself. You may have blamed yourself for it, defended it, or built your identity around it. But the evidence suggests that someone else made the decision — or that events unfolded very differently from the way you remember them. What happens when a memory that shaped your life turns out to be unreliable? IN THIS EPISODE • How a remembered choice can shape your identity, even when the details are wrong• Why a vivid memory is not the same as proof• How we can carry guilt for decisions we may never have made• What happens when evidence challenges the story we tell about ourselves• Why the consequences of a mistaken memory can still be real• Whether understanding the past can help us make different choices in the present You don't need to doubt every memory. And discovering that a memory may be inaccurate doesn't erase everything you experienced afterward. Perhaps the important question isn't only whether you made the choice you remember. Perhaps it's also whether you are still allowing that memory to make choices for you. QUESTION FOR YOU If you discovered that a major choice you remember making was actually made by someone else, would it change how you see yourself? ABOUT THIS EPISODE What If You Remember Choosing Something You Never Chose?Season 1 · Episode 29 · Choice WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? is a psychological podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPLORE YOUR OWN MEMORIES THE MEMORY INVESTIGATIONThe Practical Workbook for Exploring Your Memories The goal isn't to assume that your memories are false. It's to look at them more thoughtfully. Publica: https://publica.now/creators/jonahwhitmore-author/works/the-memory-investigation-the-practical-workbook-for-exploring-your-memories Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/EfCj5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOKS BY JONAH WHITMORE THE MEMORY EDITORhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHJ25SQ2 THE FIRST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHHHGBQ2 THE LAST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ24CPP1 THE UNCHOSENhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJCYXRRY THE MEMORY THAT REMAINEDhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZH5RM7 Complete book catalog:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/jonah-whitmore-books-official/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LISTEN TO WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7qrqsjArnmJeOQdeGsJbxg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-you-trust/id6818862637 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NeonReflexLoop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCOVER JONAH WHITMORE Official author website: https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/ Written and created by Jonah Whitmore. WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? The memories you carry. The choices you believe you made. The person you became because of them. And the person you can still choose to become. #WhatWouldYouTrust #Memory #Identity #Consciousness #Choice

    What If You Remember Choosing Something You Never Chose? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Episode 29

  8. Oct 18

    How Much of Your Choice Is Actually Yours? | WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Episode 28

    Think about the last important decision you made. You probably had your reasons. You considered the possibilities, weighed the risks, and eventually chose what seemed right. But how much of that decision was really yours? In Episode 28 of WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST?, we explore the hidden influences behind our choices — the memories, fears, habits, and expectations that shape what we want and what we believe is possible. Two people can face exactly the same opportunity and see completely different futures. One sees freedom. The other sees danger. Both believe they are responding to reality, but their past experiences may be shaping what they see. Sometimes, a familiar reaction becomes a habit. A habit becomes part of our personality. And eventually, we stop questioning it. We simply say, "That's who I am." But what if some of the choices we consider uniquely our own are actually patterns we learned long ago? IN THIS EPISODE • How past experiences influence present decisions• Why the same opportunity can feel exciting to one person and dangerous to another• How inherited expectations shape our desires• When habits become so familiar that we mistake them for personality• Why understanding a decision can change how we see ourselves• Whether recognizing our influences can help us choose differently You don't need to question every decision you make. And being influenced by your past doesn't mean your choices are meaningless. Perhaps freedom isn't about making decisions untouched by experience. Perhaps it begins when we recognize the influence of the past — and decide what role it should play in our future. QUESTION FOR YOU When you make a choice, are you expressing who you are — or repeating who you learned to be? ABOUT THIS EPISODE How Much of Your Choice Is Actually Yours?Season 1 · Episode 28 · Choice WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? is a psychological podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPLORE YOUR OWN MEMORIES THE MEMORY INVESTIGATIONThe Practical Workbook for Exploring Your Memories The goal isn't to assume that your memories are false. It's to look at them more thoughtfully. Publica:https://publica.now/creators/jonahwhitmore-author/works/the-memory-investigation-the-practical-workbook-for-exploring-your-memories Payhip:https://payhip.com/b/EfCj5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOKS BY JONAH WHITMORE THE MEMORY EDITORhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHJ25SQ2 THE FIRST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHHHGBQ2 THE LAST ARCHIVEhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ24CPP1 THE UNCHOSENhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJCYXRRY THE MEMORY THAT REMAINEDhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZH5RM7 Complete book catalog:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/jonah-whitmore-books-official/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LISTEN TO WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/7qrqsjArnmJeOQdeGsJbxg Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-you-trust/id6818862637 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@NeonReflexLoop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCOVER JONAH WHITMORE Official author website:https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/ Written and created by Jonah Whitmore. WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? The memories you carry.The beliefs you inherit.The choices you make. And the person you become because of them. #WhatWouldYouTrust #Memory #Identity #Consciousness #Choice

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WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? A psychological fiction podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice — and the stories we tell ourselves. Each episode begins with a question: What if you couldn't trust your own memories? Memory can change. Evidence can disappear. Choices can be influenced. And sometimes the truth is the one thing you were never meant to remember. For readers and listeners drawn to psychological science fiction, thrillers, dark philosophical fiction, and thought experiments about what makes us who we are.

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  • Creator
    Jonah Whitmore
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    35
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Jonah Whitmore
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    WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST?