Also: is it wrong to feel inured to the pandemic?
Everybody's got a big butt.
Hey, I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
When is it time to put down the task list and just chill for a while?
I quickly discovered that I could do yoga with one device and with another.
Check and reply to my emails.
Also, is it wrong to feel numb.
To the gravity of the pandemic, you compassionless cretan?
So, Angela, I see a new study here published by researchers at the University of Zurich and Radboud University in the Netherlands, which argues that hedonism, or pleasure seeking, leads to happiness as effectively as self control leads to happiness.
So provocative.
This seems to argue directly against the Angela Duckworth School of Achievement leads to happiness, which, by the way, I subscribe to as well.
But now I'm starting to think, what the heck?
Are we all just wasting our time trying to achieve things when we'd be happier just lying in the hammock all day?
For the record, Steven, it's probably relationships.
Actually, there's lots of research showing that our friendships and our family make us happy much more than our achievements.
But this paper, it brings up a pretty interesting and provocative counter view to the idea that self control is great and that we should all have more of it, and if we do, well, all be better off.
And I should point out that in this research, it's not that self control comes out as the villain.
So it's not that this idea of wanting to pursue hedonic, pleasurable goals is against self control.
In fact, they're positively correlated in the study.