Tim Urban On Procrastination, Changing Habits, And Slow Improvement

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<p>Ryan speaks with Tim Urban about his new book <a href="https://geni.us/cw23e" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies</em></a>, 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.</p><p>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 <em>Quartz</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em>, <em>The Atlantic</em>, <em>Time</em>, <em>Business Insider</em> and <em>Gizmodo</em>, and his 2016 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TED Talk: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator</a> 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 <a href="https://waitbutwhy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">waitbutwhy.com</a> and on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@waitbutwhy</a> and Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/timurban/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@timurban</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TikTok</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>