The Mammoth of Caring What Others Think

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"It's very hard to turn off a piece of wiring that has been there since Before we were even conscious of their being such a thing as that kind of wiring This is like comedians think about what what does a successful comedian do? Obviously they have a knack for comedy That's a big thing, but the other a huge part of what they're doing is they realize that They find the things that everyone's thinking but no one's saying either because everyone's scared to say it or sometimes just because Everyone has that experience that they don't realize it's universal and so when someone else says it they say oh my god I did that too," he said. "To be a person who didn

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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