Also: how do you know if you have a “bad personality”?
This is really fun.
Yay.
Go.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
When is family estrangement healthy?
This isn't working out.
Do you want this clock radio?
Because if you don't, I'm taking it.
Also, what does it mean to have a good personality?
You, by the way, would be called an ambivert.
Steven sounds a lot like a pervert, which I'm not crazy about.
Steven, I have a question I've been thinking about lately.
It's about family, and it's about whether getting kind of divorced from your family estrangement, is that ever the right thing to do?
The healthy thing to do?
So I find this question very interesting because I've thought about estrangement a lot.
In fact, I've been trying for five years to do a good freakonomics radio episode on estrangement.
Why have you been trying and why have you been able to?
Well, I've been trying because I think it is one of many under examined elements of life that has all kinds of implications.