The Importance of Accepting Bad Things

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If you're putting out 10 bad things in a row. Well now if you're gonna lose people's trust Um, but then you probably honestly then you're putting you might not be I mean it depends if you think you're really early that you might have a long way to a lot of growth left But the point is if you're having a hit and most things are You know, a lot of things are pretty well like and some things are okay Then then you should just pump it out as long as your average is pretty good because you're gonna hit Get some hits along the way and then the bad things won't be the norm and so screw it like but I don't 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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