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Tim Urban, Wait But Why // The Craft of Storytelling + Thinking Like Elon Musk

Creator Lab - interviews with entrepreneurs and startup founders

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The Dark Self-Loathing Period

I've heard you say that between the age of 22 and 31, you hated yourself. Is that accurate first of all? Was that like a throwaway line that I've latched onto? Yeah, I think it's hyperbolic. I don't think I've ever been like a dark self-loathing period. Like really hate myself. It's more that I've gone through periods of real frustration feeling like I knew what I should be trying to do. And I was just delaying and delaying and delaying. That gets exhausting. But in a lot of other ways, I can't complain because it's not like I was doing some dead-end job. So we were having

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