How to Overcome Compound Growth

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There's another not intuitive thing there Which is compound growth we are not wired to understand expert to think exponentially, right? I mean again someone in 20,000 BC. There was really nothing exponential in their life Everything was linear, right? So they think in straight lines and of course today in an advanced civilization it's this exponential curves all over the place. We are so bad at internalizing that you have to kind of override our in linear mind to see the power of that and to understand You know how that works. And a lot of people give up in that first thing before the hockey stick takes off because they just they're just projecting They're extrapolating the linear curve from where

Ryan speaks with Tim Urban about his new book What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies, why everyone who wants to improve at something should aim to do it slowly, what it really means to “trust the process,” why they like writing so much, and more.

Tim Urban is a writer, illustrator, blogger, and entrepreneur. He earned his A.B. from Harvard University, graduating cum laude with a major in Government. Since starting his long-form, stick figure-illustrated blog Wait But Why in 2013, he has become one of the most popular writers and thinkers on the internet. His articles have been regularly republished on sites like Quartz, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Business Insider and Gizmodo, and his 2016 TED Talk: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator has been viewed over 50 million times on YouTube alone. Wait But Why regularly receives over 1.5 million unique visitors per month on average, and his blog is read by over 300,000 email subscribers. His work, which covers a wide range of topics, including technology, human behavior, self-improvement, and more, can be found at waitbutwhy.com and on Twitter @waitbutwhy and Instagram @timurban.

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