How to Be a Better Masochist

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discipline for some people is like buckling down and doing the thing And then discipline for other people is like taking your foot off the gas Right and not doing something. I'm probably more in that second category than the first category, but there's definitely things where I'm not that way. Um, it's just sort of understanding like What is the harder thing for you? And then why is that the harder thing?" "You want to be in control not your desires or your Versions the stokes would say that they didn't at the end of the day Those are the same thing right like if you're repulsed by something or Overwhelmingly attracted to that thing in either case

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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