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Oh, I'm better than that person.
Oh, worse than that one.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
Is our society built on envy?
He actually does something useful, and I just sit here and talk to people.
Angela, we have a question from a listener named Josh whitten in vancouver, British Columbia.
What a place that is.
Got engaged there, did you?
Yeah.
Why?
What do you mean, why?
Cause Jason asked me to marry him there.
I don't know.
I kind of figured that part.
Why were you there?
Well, we were on vacation.
Do you think the vacation proposal is the right move?
You know, it rained continuously every day that we were there, except for, like, 2 hours.