15. How Much of Your Life Do You Actually Control?

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  That wasn't so much a question as a kind of cranky old man observation.

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  So de crankify me.

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  I want to be cranky with you, if that's okay.

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  I'm Angela Duckworth.

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

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  No Stupid Questions today on the show.

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  How much of your life is in your control?

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  My teacher's unfair.

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  They're always picking on me, and I get all these marks on my record,

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  and then I can't go on the field trip.

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  Also, why do we procrastinate?

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  And how can we stop?

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  I don't want to do that.

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  Really, really don't want to do that.

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  Angela, my question for you today is, I think,

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  really hard, but perhaps important enough to wrestle with.

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  Are you up for it?

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  Of course.

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  Okay.

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  This question arose when I was reading Maria Konnikova's new book, the Biggest Bluff.

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