Twenty years ago, Dr. Eric Oliver started teaching a course on how to know your self at the University of Chicago.  In the class, Eric would ask his students nine questions that were essential for crafting “a well-examined life.”  For this podcast, he poses these same nine questions to some of our wisest and most interesting fellow humans.  We hope these conversations will shed some light on your own lived experience and tell you something you didn’t know about this mysterious process we call a self.

If you’re interested in answering the questions for your self, they go as follows:

1) What am I?

2) What is my purpose?

3) Who am I, really?

4) What are my dreams telling me?

5) How (not what) am I feeling?

6) Who is writing my life’s story?

7) Do I own my shit, or does it own me?

8) How do I find love?

9) Where am I going from here?

 
 

Eric Oliver

Eric Oliver is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he has been teaching since 2002. Prior to that he was an assistant professor at Princeton and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research covers a wide array of subjects, ranging from why people believe in conspiracy theories to why liberals and conservatives choose different baby names. His books include Enchanted America, The Paradoxes of Integration, Fat Politics, and Democracy in Suburbia.

 
 

Andrea Morales

Andrea Morales is an actor and artist living in New York City. A graduate of Purdue University and the University of Missouri - Kansas City, Andrea has been fortunate enough to work in Film, Television, Commercials, Voice Over, Print, and Theatre for the last 10 years. Some favorites include Bull, The Blacklist, Prodigal Son, Hearts Beat Loud, Buried Child, Warby Parker, DirecTV, Chase among others.