Tim Urban on Everything

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Tim Urban discuss making better choices, managing human foibles, and distilling big ideas into clear words. Tim Urban is a writer and author of the blog Wait But Why. He is the author of What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Tim Urban discuss how to develop strong productive habits; the human tendency towards “chronocentrism”; as well as how American society has become troubled and why finding real solutions will require courage. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Barclays, we're here for every goal.
0:06.4	We're here for the Premier League,
0:09.0	and the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:12.0	We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance.
0:18.0	We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.
0:27.6	Barclays, here for every goal.
0:30.8	If all of human history were written as a thousand page book.
0:34.0	If you're an alien reading this, by an alien anthropologist and you're reading this book, you're thinking,
0:38.0	what's about to happen to this species?
0:40.0	As you turn the page to page one thousand one you're thinking
0:43.8	shit's going down they're either about to be a hyper-technical super
0:47.2	advanced long-term species or they're about to blow themselves up and now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:57.0	For the last weeks I have been describing the first two parts of my new book of the identity trap to you.
1:07.6	And those I chronicle where the set of ideas about race and gender and sexual orientation that is so influential today actually come from.
1:17.4	And I go on to show how they transcend campus go from being influential in that particular verified world
1:26.1	to being deeply influential in all kinds of mainstream institutions in the United States
1:31.6	and beyond.
1:33.0	Well, now the Philosopher's Fund starts.
1:35.9	In the third part of the book, I critique carefully
1:40.0	the main applications of these ideas to different topics.
1:45.5	The first one is about standpoint theory
1:49.3	and the supposed inability of people
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