How to Know Your Self: The Art & Science of Discovering Who You Really Are
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Book Overview A thinking person's guide to self-awareness, How to Know Your Self also shows how you can use self-knowledge to live a happier life. Most...
A thinking person's guide to self-awareness, How to Know Your Self also shows how you can use self-knowledge to live a happier life.
Most of us live with a low-grade sense that something's off. A background hum of anxiety, regret, or dissatisfaction we can't quite name. We try positive thinking, adjusting our habits, the occasional meditation app. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it doesn't. Either way, we rarely understand why.
J. Eric Oliver, a University of Chicago professor who has taught a legendary course on the self for twenty years, argues that we can't fix what we don't understand. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, evolutionary biology, and ancient philosophy, he maps the self as a layered system: each layer (biological, animal, linguistic, psychological) both defines us as humans and traps us in ways that undermine our happiness. Understanding this paradox is the first step in self-improvement.
The goal of How to Know Your Self isn't self-knowledge for its own sake. It offers something more practical: better mental well-being, starting from a place of genuine understanding. The result is personal development grounded in how the mind actually works, not in wishful thinking.
What you'll find inside:
How to Know Your Self isn't a book that promises to change your life in seven steps. It's for readers who've tried those books and want to understand what they were actually doing.
Most of us live with a low-grade sense that something's off. A background hum of anxiety, regret, or dissatisfaction we can't quite name. We try positive thinking, adjusting our habits, the occasional meditation app. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it doesn't. Either way, we rarely understand why.
J. Eric Oliver, a University of Chicago professor who has taught a legendary course on the self for twenty years, argues that we can't fix what we don't understand. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, evolutionary biology, and ancient philosophy, he maps the self as a layered system: each layer (biological, animal, linguistic, psychological) both defines us as humans and traps us in ways that undermine our happiness. Understanding this paradox is the first step in self-improvement.
The goal of How to Know Your Self isn't self-knowledge for its own sake. It offers something more practical: better mental well-being, starting from a place of genuine understanding. The result is personal development grounded in how the mind actually works, not in wishful thinking.
What you'll find inside:
- Why anxiety, regret, and self-defeating patterns are so hard to shake, and what's actually driving them.
- What meditation, yoga, therapy, and psychedelics actually do, and why some things work better than others for different people.
- How consciousness, language, and ego shape our psychology in ways we rarely see clearly.
- How to build the courage to stop running from discomfort and start learning from it.
- Why self-optimization is worth showing up for every day.
How to Know Your Self isn't a book that promises to change your life in seven steps. It's for readers who've tried those books and want to understand what they were actually doing.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 288 | Language: English | Publisher: LIVERIGHT PUB CORP | ISBN: 1324095237
FormatHardcover
Pages288
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1324095237
EAN9781324095231
PublisherLIVERIGHT PUB CORP
Publication Date2026-01-06
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.0 Pounds
Length9.11 Inches
Width6.01 Inches
Height1.11 Inches
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