In this special episode of No Stupid Questions, Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth discuss the consequences of seeing every glass as at least half-full.
Hey, there.
It's Steven Dubner.
A couple years ago, I got to be good friends with Angela Duckworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the book Grit.
We decided to make a podcast together.
We called it no stupid questions, and it became the first spinoff in the freakonomics radio network.
So you may ask, how's it going?
Yeah, not bad.
Today, no stupid questions gets more than a million listens every month.
If you are one of those million, thank you.
And if you're not, well, we plainly haven't made our case yet.
Perhaps today's episode will change your mind.
You are about to hear a new episode of no stupid questions, made especially for our freakonomics radio listeners.
Every week on no stupid questions, we try to answer a question like, if everybody hates meetings, why do we have so many of them?
Or when is it okay to tell a lie?
Or how can you stop comparing yourself to other people?
Some of these questions come from listeners.
Some are just rattling around in Angela's head, or my head.
In any case, Angela and I love having these conversations.
And if you enjoy hearing them, I have good news.
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