Tim Urban On Procrastination, Changing Habits, And Slow Improvement
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🗓️ 27 May 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
| 0:15.6 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.4 | Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage justice temperance and wisdom |
| 0:26.0 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview |
| 0:32.2 | Stoke philosophers we explore at length how these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the |
| 0:41.3 | Challenging issues of our time |
| 0:43.5 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:48.8 | Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal |
| 0:54.4 | And most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring |
| 1:05.4 | It wasn't a casualty of the pandemic in the true sense, but one of the things that |
| 1:12.2 | I was looking forward to every year and I haven't done since the pandemic happened was |
| 1:19.2 | I was in this sort of writers group or mastermind |
| 1:22.9 | And this group was you know, it's people like James clear shane parish does pharnum street |
| 1:28.7 | Steve cam who does uh nerd fitness |
| 1:32.3 | uh Eric Barker from barking up the wrong tree. I don't know. Well, this everyone was a great group |
| 1:36.8 | And one of my favorite people in that group was Tim urban and you know the pandemic happens |
| 1:41.7 | So we couldn't do it for a year and then |
| 1:44.4 | Some of us had kids and we got busy and we just fell out of out of the habit and I do hope we get back into it |
| 1:50.3 | but today's episode was the |
| 1:53.6 | Longest conversation I've got to have with Tim since we would spend three or four days in this house in Arizona and just |
| 2:00.2 | Give each other feedback kick around ideas have long dinners |
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