How to Be a Non-Conformist

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Some of these very successful interesting people like most people sort of think Uh like everyone else and so there is a skill in thinking not like everyone else right of sort of pausing When you're on the side of the majority and thinking differently. then they go and say it out loud and the audience is in stitches They're so delighted that someone is saying this thing and it just it's a reflection not on the comedian But on the audience like what why are we all so delighted to hear that because we're all Scaring to say this thing for some weird reasonBecause we're all in weird conformist people who are terrified of being different And uh and so yeah, it's Well, you know

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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