Tim Urban:
What’s Our Problem?
What’s Our Problem? Self-help for societies
What, exactly, is our problem?
Author Tim Urban, known for his extended riff on procrastination in his endlessly wise, sidesplittingly funny, stick-figure illustrated Wait But Why blog, emerged from a 6-year deep think with an answer that has the power to save humanity (from itself).
In Urban’s analysis, the primitive mind is a furry orange monster holding a burning torch, big dumb looking genies called golems roam the land — and we’re going to need a resurgence of rival genies to save us.
Now which one of you has anything more fascinating to tend to on October 15th? We thought not. (Still thinking? Watch Tim’s TED Talk, below.)
What’s Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban convinces us that when the stakes couldn’t possibly be higher, it’s a real problem that “my society is currently acting like a poppypansed four-year-old who dropped its ice cream.” You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want the presidential candidates to talk golems, giants and rival genies in order to save us.
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