This post is part of a series on Tim Urban’s book, What’s Our Problem? a self-help book for societies. -- In a previous post on how we think, we discussed how low-rung thinking considers ideas sacred and values conformity. What happens when we add another dimension to this

This post is part of a series on Tim Urban’s book, What’s Our Problem? a self-help book for societies. -- Building on his idea of the thinking ladder (see here for a quick recap) and distinguishing how we think from what we think, Tim Urban introduces the concept

This post is inspired by Tim Urban’s book, What’s Our Problem? a self-help book for societies -- In a previous post, “on how we think,” I highlighted the idea of high-rung and low-rung thinking as a new way to examine our thinking patterns, beyond just “what we think.

This post is inspired by Tim Urban’s book, What’s Our Problem? a self-help book for societies. -- Our behavior is influenced by a combination of our primitive mind (limbic system) and our higher mind (prefrontal cortex). The primitive mind is concerned only with survival, while the higher mind