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Hi, NSQ listeners.
This week we're replaying one of our favorite episodes from the archive, a conversation from last year in which Angela and Steven divided the world into two very different kinds of people.
Angela will be back next week with guest host Mike Maughan.
Now here's episode 91 from March 2022.
Do you savor or gobble?
The average elementary school student would have knifed the teacher.
Hey, I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
What is the difference between a person who savors and someone who devours?
This makes me even more suspicious of the marshmallow fury, because you're thinking, I.
Am my one marshmallow girl.
Obviously.
Angela, I have a question for which there is certainly no right answer.
Oh, my favorite kind of question.
The question is, as when you get something new and or valuable or just desirable, are you personally more inclined to treasure it and save it for special occasions and maybe try to preserve it, keep it as new as possible?
Or are you so in love with a thing that you just want to use it as much as possible right away?
And then depending on which answer you give, I want to know what that answer might say about a given person.
I am a complete use it right away person.
I knew it.