The Importance of Self-Restraint

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

There's a dependency on The feeling that you're achieving Um something there's some kind of emotional dependency there, um, which again serves you really well in so many ways But it's interesting digging into like what that is Well work for me like sitting down in writing in the flow state of writing is a wonderful feeling. I get to live with these ideas and people and characters and concepts that I find very stimulating and meaningful. You have to pace yourself There's there's distress in that you're sort of willingly feeling Uh a discomfort that's maybe akin to the discomfort you're feeling from actually concentrating We're both four. As humans where we we try to stay in our comfort zone Right, so

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.

✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail

🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.

📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.