When a child is born it has biological awareness — present without knowing itself. Language and memory turn that awareness into intellectual self-awareness, the kind that asks why am I here. In this episode I work through what happens when biology governs the mind versus when the mind governs biology, why the bigger your vocabulary the more angles of yourself you can perceive, and the cyclical pattern that comfortable times make weak men who make hard times. I bring in Dostoevsky and the Russian literary tradition that examines characters through gray areas, the make-your-bed practice that brings order to your immediate sphere, and the closer: meaning isn't found, it's constructed by the person willing to do the work no one else can do for them.

My book Mythos: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK

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