6. Is Incompetence a Form of Dishonesty?

6。无能是一种不诚实的形式吗?

No Stupid Questions

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2025-01-26

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Also: should we all have personal mission statements? This episode originally aired on June 21, 2020.
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  • I haven't spiraled yet and I'm pretty old.

  • Just make it a few more years and you'll be good.

  • I'm just running out the clock now.

  • I'm Angela Duckworth.

  • I'm Stephen Dubner and you're listening to.

  • No Stupid Questions today on the show.

  • Is it immoral to slack off at work when others are depending on you to do a good job?

  • I had a tiny bit of authority and as an umpire of a minor Little League game, and I exploited it for my own benefit.

  • Also, how valuable is it to have.

  • A personal mission statement that sounds like a marketing scam?

  • I can sell you one and it comes with a set of steak knives.

  • Angela Duckworth, I have what may be a truly stupid question, but this is the one place I'm allowed to ask it.

  • That's right.

  • So here goes.

  • Do you believe, as I do, that incompetence is often a form of dishonesty?

  • And I can spell out further what I mean by that if you'd like.

  • I have a first intuition, which is, no, but why don't you elaborate a little bit?

  • Yeah.

  • Okay.

  • So I realize it's a murky question, but what I'm suggesting is this.