Village Square Event: "What's Our Problem?" with Tim Urban

Event Topic:
"Tim Urban: What's Our Problem?"

About this Event:
Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world's most popular bloggers at Wait But Why , writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI to colonizing Mars to procrastination. Then, he turned his attention to a new topic: the society around him. Why was everything such a mess? Why was everyone acting like such a baby? When did things get so tribal? Why do humans do this stuff?

This massive topic sent Tim tumbling down his deepest rabbit hole yet, through mountains of history, evolutionary psychology, political theory, neuroscience, and modern-day political movements, as he tried to figure out the answer to a simple question: What's our problem?

Six years later, he emerged from the hole with a book. What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies is a deep and expansive analysis of our modern times that provides an entirely new framework and language for thinking and talking about today's complex world. Instead of focusing on the usual left-center-right horizontal political axis, which is all about what we think, the book introduces a vertical axis that explores how we think, as individuals and as groups.

More about our speaker:
Tim Urban is best-known as a writer and illustrator from his popular blog "Wait But Why" that covers a wide variety of complex topics in an easy-to-understand format complete with stick-figure drawings. Thanks to his blog's popularity, Tim got an opportunity to give a TED Talk in 2016 entitled "Insider the Mind of a Master Procrastinator", as well as speaking opportunities at MIT, Stevens Institute of Technology, and several tech companies like SpaceX, Google, and Y Combinator. He's also the co-founder of the test prep firm Arbor Bridge, and has personally tutored nearly every academic subject and prepared students for the SAT, ACT, GRE and ISEE tests. He graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in government in 2004.

Registering for the Online Event:
This is a FREE event; however, you will need to register for it. Go to the following Eventbrite link & fill out the registration form:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tim-urban-whats-our-problem-tickets-1007236279827?aff=oddtdtcreator

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About the Event Host:
The Village Square is a non-profit, non-partisan public educational forum founded in 2006 by Liz Joyner, Allan Katz, and Bill Law in Tallahassee, Florida. They lamented the lack of a shared civic space where people could air their differences of opinion, so they created one. They now spearhead a variety of programming centered around civility and community-building, especially among political opponents. The group is dedicated to maintaining factual accuracy in civic and political debate by growing civil discourse on divisive issues, and recalling the history and principles at the foundation of our democracy.

NOTE: This evening's program is part of the "UNUM: Democracy Reignited" series in partnership with Florida Humanities, which explores the past, present and future of the American idea — as it exists on paper, in the hearts of our people, and as it manifests in our lives. Find the full series online here: https://tlh.villagesquare.us/democracy-reignited/

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