Also: why do we treat pets better than people?
Do I seem like an anti mindfulness person?
Too crotchety to be mindful?
Cause all the mindfulness people are, like, so nice.
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 questions, no stupid questions.
Today on no stupid questions.
How do you keep from losing your temper over things that just don't matter?
I have a terrible temper, and when it erupts, it's pretty bad.
I'm so angry.