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EPISODE · Dec 21, 2025 · 44 MIN

How to Know Your Self: The Art & Science of Discovering Who You Really Are with author J.Eric Oliver

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For more than twenty years, University of Chicago professor J. Eric Oliver has taught a legendary course—The Intelligible Self—that students routinely describe as life-changing. Now, in How to Know Your Self, he brings the best of that classroom experience to readers everywhere. Learn about the story of George and the 'honey pot' that haunts Professor Oliver to this day, And LUCA, our 3.7 billion year ancestor whose self-preservation systems still govern modern behavior, the difference between Your Self and yourself, and more!

For more than twenty years, University of Chicago professor J. Eric Oliver has taught a legendary course—The Intelligible Self—that students routinely describe as life-changing. Now, in How to Know Your Self, he brings the best of that classroom experience to readers everywhere. Learn about the story of George and the 'honey pot' that haunts Professor Oliver to this day, And LUCA, our 3.7 billion year ancestor whose self-preservation systems still govern modern behavior, the difference between Your Self and yourself, and more!

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