The Importance of Finishing Projects

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I was just thinking about something you said though about sort of building the muscle or having the experience with finishing projects because I know you just became a parent. One of my favorite paul gram essays his kids are older Uh, and he was talking about you know, do you send them to college? How do you prepare them for the world? And he basically comes up with this idea that the most important thing you could give a kid Are a series of projects like things that they get really interested in that they work on. That becomes a microcosm of learning some of the lessons that we're talking about So for one kid, maybe it's building model trains for other kids It's making

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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