The Resistance to Success

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When I was writing short, you know one one week blog posts There was this adrenaline where the thing I'm writing right now is gonna be seen by all my readers in two dates and it's gonna be so exciting. But when you go from mile 340 to 350 out of 3000 It that the dumb part of your brain can't see LA to this kid even understand that LA is gonna happen and just sees is this isn't exciting Nothing new not my life will be any different at the end of this work day. You know that that's where the resistance comes in like what's the point even I'm going from 10 miles in this bit? It's like it just feels so hopeless, but

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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