YOU, WONDROUS YOU

From the host of the Liturgists podcast and Ask Science Mike, a book exporing theunseen forces that cause us to fail in our endless quest to fix ourselves -- and how this knowledge can help us live more at peace with who we really are.

For thousands of years, philosophers, scientists, and religious leaders have wrestled with one of the great conundrums of human existence: why we do the things we do. Or rather, why we so often don't do the things that we want to do. The quest for answers supports whole industries of motivational speakers, psychiatrists, televangelists, and self-help gurus, promising to make people into their ideal self.

In YOU, WONDROUS YOU, Mike McHargue speaks to the rest of us, those who are exhausted from the endless quest to "fix" ourselves. This quest fails for good reason, McHargue writes, because while we like to think we're in control of our life and our rational decisions, a host of unseen factors are at play in every feeling we experience and every action we take.

Drawing on science, personal narrative, and spiritual insight, McHargue pulls back the curtain on human consciousness to show why behavioral change is so hard, why so much of modern life
leaves us lonely and stressed out, and how by making peace with the multiplicity of human identity, we can live more at peace with ourselves, our lives, and the existential questions that keep us
up at night.

Mike McHargue, also known as "Science Mike," is the host and co-host of two podcasts--Ask Science Mike and The Liturgists Podcast--that have attracted a curious following among Christians, the spiritually interested, and the religiously unaffiliated. He is an in-demand speaker at conferences and churches around the country, and he writes for the Storyline Blog, Sojourners, and Relevant magazine.