{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Tim Urban Part Two","description":"     Tim Urban writes a pretty famous blog called Wait But Why - have you read it? Whether you have or you've never heard of it before, this episode will not only thoroughly entertain you but it will also help you implement a playful yet powerful approach to growing in wisdom. When it comes to concepts like "the consciousness staircase" or mindfulness about your moment to moment tasks, nothing helps your self-confidence more than reaping the benefits of making good decisions, "out of the fog", in the clarity of awareness. In this episode, Tim Urban teaches you hacks to do just that and you'll chuckle a lot along the way.   This week we talk to Tim Urban Tim Urban has become one of the Internet\u2019s most popular writers. With wry stick-figure illustrations and occasionally epic prose on everything from procrastination to artificial intelligence, Urban's blog, Wait But Why, has garnered millions of unique page views, thousands of patrons and famous fans like Elon Musk His recent Ted talk has been watched almost 15 million times. His articles have been regularly republished on sites like Quartz, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, TIME, Business Insider and Gizmodo. In 2015, Fast Company wrote that \u201cWait But Why is disproving the notion that thoughtful, long-form content and virality are mutually exclusive.\u201d Urban has gained a number of prominent readers as well: authors Sam Harris and Susan Cain, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, TED curator Chris Anderson and Brain Pickings\u2019 Maria Popova. Recently, Urban received a call from Elon Musk, who told Urban he liked his writing and asked Urban if he\u2019d like to interview him and write about his companies. Urban accepted, and spent the next six months writing a thorough blog series that Vox\u2019s David Roberts called \u201cthe meatiest, most fascinating, most satisfying posts I\u2019ve read in ages.\u201d Since then, Urban\u2019s relationship with Musk has continued: Musk invited him to host SpaceX\u2019s launch webcast, solicited Urban\u2019s input and slide illustrations in a talk he did at the December 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris, and recently granted him early access to information about SpaceX's interplanetary transport system for use in a post on Wait But Why.   In This Interview, Tim Urban and I Discuss... The Wolf Parable The consciousness staircase That wisdom doesn't correlate with age Step 1: Being in the Fog Step 2: Thinning the fog to reveal context How meditation can help Step 3: Whoa Moments Step 4: We Don't Know What's Going On How he's an agnostic about reality The value of humility How ludicrous certainty can be     Please Support The Show with a Donation       ","author_name":"The One You Feed - Learn Good Habits to Increase Mindfulness and Happiness and Decrease Anxiety and Depression","author_url":"http:\/\/oneyoufeed.net","html":"