Also: why can't humans handle uncertainty already?
Hey, Angela, how's your life?
No, that sounded insincere.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hey, Angela, how's your life?
That's too big, Stephen.
I can't.
I can't answer that in less than a paragraph.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
And I'm Steven 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.