What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies

The second is called What's Our Problem by Tim Urban. This is one of the best nonfiction books I have read in a very long time.

Super excited to be joined by the creator of a really popular blog called Wait But Why and also the author of a new book that we both just read. The book is called What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies.

You lay out in this book an alternative way of seeing politics where, yes, you have a left right spectrum, but there's another dynamic playing out that you describe as the difference between sort of higher mind approach to politics versus a more primitive mindset.

I think that's a big part of what's been happening with our politics is we have this one dimensional horizontal spectrum, left center, right, you know, far right and far left, right? That's it. And so that's very limiting.

High rung politics to me, and this again is a subset of kind of the broader concept of high rung thinking. It's concerned with moving towards a more perfect union, as Abe Lincoln said, right?

I think I call it political Disney world because like I think of Disney movies, you know, there is villains, there's, you know, Simba, good, Scar bad, right?

Go listen to a fucking self-help book that was recorded for you on ebook

In a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast with Tim Urban is the creator of wait but why and he's the author of this new book called What's Our Problem I talked to him about his lifelong struggle with some of these very habits namely just namely distraction and procrastination.

his book is called What's Our Problem, A Self Helpbook for Societies

It's Available Only as an eBook on most major platforms and an audio book. It's not up as a print book yet but it's brilliant, provocative.