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I'm Angela Duckworth.
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Angela, there's a magazine that comes out once a year that I love from the New York Times Magazine, which I happen to have worked at.
My favorite issue is a year end one called the lives they lived, which looks back at interesting people who have died in the previous year.
I've seen that we actually created that special issue when I was an editor there.
So I was involved in it, and it was really fun to look back at all the people who had died in the previous year, and not just commission pieces on the most famous or the most influential or whatnot, but really the most interesting tangent upon a tangent.
We originally called it not the lives they lived, but lives well lived, which I think ended up being a little too saccharine for our taste.
I like it, though.
You know, life well lived, it's very aristotelian eudaimonia, the good life.
The problem was that lives well lived, that phrase kind of excluded scoundrels.
Oh, do you include scoundrels?
Well, you wanna have the latitude to include people whose lives were not, quote, well lived.
In fact, I may be misremembering this.
I think I wrote a piece once about a young guy who was driving on a rural road in Maine and hit Stephen King with his car and almost killed Stephen King.
I've read Stephen King's side of that in the book.