Also: how does age affect happiness?
Wow, you really have lowered your expectations, haven't you?
This is why I'm so happy.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
And I'm Stephen Dubner.
I'm a psychologist at Penn, and I run an educational nonprofit called Character Lab.
You also wrote the book grit.
Yes.
And I am a writer, and I host a podcast called Freakonomics Radio.
And you wrote the book freakonomics, among quite a few others.
I did.
And you and I became friends.
We did, and we discovered that both of us really like to ask each other questions.
And there's only one rule.
The rule is there are no.
There are no stupid questions.
Today on no stupid questions.
How do you know if you're a hard worker?
You come up with a few salient examples.
Right?
You think of your wife, lazy.