892: Tim Urban | What's Our Problem (And How Do We Solve It)?
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Wait But Why's Tim Urban helps us find ways to cope with the chaos of current events in his new book, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies.
What We Discuss with Tim Urban:- Why we're so polarized and partisan in our political beliefs — seemingly more than ever before.
- How low-rung thinking prevails on both sides of the political aisle (and what we can do to ascend to higher-rung thinking).
- The perspective we can gain if we imagine the history of humanity as a 1,000-page book.
- How the internet went from a unifying force of human connection to a division-sowing outrage generator.
- Why we should strive to build our own "idea lab" instead of comfortably hunkering down in a tribally sponsored, anger-generating echo chamber.
- And much more...
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