What have you read, watched, or listened to recently that changed how you think?

Three things.

Plato's Euthyphro. I read it expecting a philosophical treatise on piety. What I got was a play. The character dynamics are more interesting than the argument. Socrates pretends not to know the answer. Euthyphro is so certain he's pious that he's prosecuting his own father. The irony is layered: the man being tried for corrupting the youth is the only one in the room who's actually asking honest questions. It changed how I think about certainty. The person most confident in their answer is usually the one who's examined it least.

Steinbeck's East of Eden. The father-son dynamics in that book hit somewhere I don't usually let books hit. There's a scene where Adam's father explains what it meant to be a soldier, and the way Steinbeck writes about inherited pain and the stories we tell ourselves about our parents, it gave me a framework for something I'd been feeling but hadn't been able to articulate.

And Nietzsche's concept of herd morality. He proposed that the reason people fall into conformity isn't logic or even culture. It's the fear of loneliness. The temptation to be accepted. To belong at the cost of becoming. That idea reorganized how I think about the choices I make. When I make a decision, I now ask: am I doing this because I believe in it, or because the alternative is standing alone?