Episode description

Wait But Why's Tim Urban helps us find ways to cope with the chaos of current events in his new book, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies.

• Why we're so polarized and partisan in our political beliefs — seemingly more than ever before.
• How low-rung thinking prevails on both sides of the political aisle (and what we can do to ascend to higher-rung thinking).
• The perspective we can gain if we imagine the history of humanity as a 1,000-page book.
• How the internet went from a unifying force of human connection to a division-sowing outrage generator.
• Why we should strive to build our own "idea lab" instead of comfortably hunkering down in a tribally sponsored, anger-generating echo chamber.
• And much more...

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