December 30, 2023

Tim Urban: what's our problem, getting wise, ego vs value crisis, self-help for societies, living with Elon Musk, building one of the most successful blogs, productiviy hacks, yin yang games and creating systems to achieve things - podcast #244

56 minutes

"Why do we need enlightenment in the first place?" - Tim Urban.

Isra Garcia interviews Tim Urban about self-help for societies, seeing the big picture for solving our cultural problems, fixing the value crisis and overcoming the resistance and the ego, leaving aside the so dangerous survival mode, what he has learned from living six months with Elon Musk, most significant takeaways from writing and building one of the most successful blogs that today still thrives more than some media companies, productivity and procrastination hacks, life advice, building lifestyle hacking systems, and some other little treasures.

"I'm just a human looking for the truth" - Tim Urban.

"I am always doing a game with me to come up with systems that help me to achieve things" - Tim Urban.

Tim Urban leads one of the most successful blogs on the Internet, Wait But Why; Tim also has one of the most well-known and popular TED talks about productivity and procrastination. Tim was invited by Elon Musk - a big fan of his blog - to spend six months with him on SpaceX and Tesla. Tim Urban is also acknowledged for his domain on writing, productivity, handling procrastination, building games for playing with systems and being creative.

"All your values fall because you are in primitive survival mode" - Tim Urban.

Index of contents - and what you will learn in this episode

A previous notice about an unexpected ending.
Intro.
What is our problem? - and Tim's recipe for that.
The most surprising thing Tim Urban discovered while writing his last book.
Ego vs Value Crisis.
Where and how Tim Urban finds daily wisdom.
Biggest learning about writing his previous book, What is Our Problem.
How bias changes when you sit to write a book about how biased we are.
Learning from writing two posts a week for more than ten years.
How Tim Urban sees blogs nowadays, and not only to keep them alive but to live too.
Best practices from blogging from a master blogger. And best practices for writing a book.
A review and update to his famous TED talk about procrastination and productivity.
What impressed Tim Urban the most about living with Elon Musk for six months was his biggest takeaway.
Best productivity hacks for Tim Urban's daily life.

"If you learn from experience, you get wise and know the right thing to do" - Tim Urban.

Podcast show notes, resources and more

Wait But Why - blog.
Tim Urban TED Talk: Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.
Wait But Why Year One - book.
The Story of Us - book.
What's Our Problem - book.
The Elon Musk blog series.

"If you have something to say, sitting down and writing your thoughts is going to be the best thing" - Tim Urban.

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