West of Jesus · What Did They Read?

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The Science of Doing Your Best Work

The Knowledge Project, 27 October 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 1 hr 2 min in.

Steven Kotler briefly identifies "West of Jesus" as the book in which he recounts his experience with Lyme disease and prolonged misdiagnosis. He notes the illness mainly kicks off the narrative rather than dominating it, and describes a paragraph that lists all the diseases he was diagnosed with before doctors agreed to test him for Lyme.

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