On episode 165, we welcome Eric Wilson to discuss how to embrace the weird parts of ourselves and why it’s important to do so, various exercises to help us along the way, why being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder caused Eric to feel like an incompetent father, how psychotherapy helped him embrace the parts of himself that could make him feel like a good dad, our fear of the strange and attraction to it, the importance of creating new habits to cultivate new parts of yourself, why there’s no such thing as a “true self,” learning to create new and more complex interpretations of ourselves and the world, how Eric helped his students become more passionate about literature, and the importance of living for oneself and embracing the purposeless life.

Eric G. Wilson is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University. He is the author of books Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, an LA Times bestseller; Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can’t Look Away; and Keep it Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, as well as many other books exploring connections among literature, film, and psychology. His newest book, available now, is called How to Be Weird: An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life.

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Eric G. Wilson - Unleashing Your Unique Self: Insights from How to Be Weird | STM Podcast #165