1. Did Covid-19 Kill the Handshake?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Also: why can't humans handle uncertainty already?

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0:00.0	Hey, Angela, how's your life?
0:01.7	No, that sounded insincere.
0:03.3	Wait, wait, wait.
0:04.4	Hey, Angela, how's your life?
0:06.9	That's too big, Steven.
0:08.1	I can't, I can't answer that in less than a paragraph.
0:13.2	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:14.2	And I'm Steven Dubner.
0:15.2	I'm a psychologist at Penn,
0:16.4	and I run an educational nonprofit called Character Lab.
0:19.2	You also wrote the book, Grit?
0:20.6	Yes.
0:21.1	And I am a writer and I host a podcast
0:23.4	called Freakonomics Radio.
0:24.6	And you wrote the book, Freakonomics,
0:26.0	among quite a few others.
0:27.1	I did.
0:27.6	And you and I became friends.
0:29.1	We did.
0:29.5	And we discovered that both of us really
0:32.0	like to ask each other questions.
0:33.6	And there's only one rule.
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