Welcome to the waking up course. The app is officially available in the iTunes store.

You can find more information on my website or at the official site which is wakingup.com.

I'm really excited about this. I want to take a few minutes to explain why I built this

course and what I'm hoping to accomplish with it.

I'm attempting to build a vessel of sorts, whether it's a rocket ship or a barge remains

to be seen. But in creating the waking up course, I'm attempting to build a vehicle on

which we can all take a journey together. And you can get on board at any time.

I've actually built the course as much for myself as for you, because producing it has

taken me back to topics and to ways of thinking that I've been struggling to get back to for

years. When I wrote my book waking up, I had hoped that it would initiate a life change

of sorts, where I could focus more on the questions that really interest me. Questions

about the human mind and the nature of consciousness and about what constitutes a good life, about

the connection between ethics and introspection. And I wanted to get back to exploring these

topics, not just conceptually but experientially. So I'd hope that releasing that book would

allow me to return to these core interests. Needless to say, I wasn't expecting to spend

my book tour for waking up talking about jihadism and terrorism and racism. But that's largely

what happened courtesy of a certain movie star having a meltdown on television. And

it took a long time to unravel all that. And then there's been American politics to

worry about. And that's been distracting. So the waking up course is a place where I can

put aside all of these far more topical concerns and just focus on what it means to live

an examined life. As I've said on this podcast, more than once, I think, I view most of my

work thus far as a series of opportunity costs. Most of what I've written and spoken about,

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