108. Should You Try to Be Less Angry?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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What is the purpose of negative emotions? Why do we engage with things we know will upset us? And how does Angie deal with rejection?

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0:00.0	Oh my god, you're such a nerd.
0:04.7	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:06.1	I'm Stephen Dubner.
0:07.1	And you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:10.5	Today on the show, how does anger affect your physical health?
0:14.8	If you ask people, would you like to feel anger?
0:16.7	Or would you like to not feel anger?
0:19.0	We would expect the vast majority of people would say,
0:21.2	I don't like to not feel anger.
0:22.4	Thank you very much.
0:23.2	I read something recently on Kora, which I like to read.
0:29.4	What is Kora?
0:30.7	What is Kora?
0:31.7	I mean, I have been on Kora, but like, what is it?
0:35.3	Kora was honestly the original inspiration for this show,
0:39.4	because Kora is a question asking an answering website
0:43.7	with a community of people who ask a lot of questions.
0:48.7	Many of them good.
0:49.7	Many of them crazy.
0:51.8	And then people who answer them, and they range from experts to amateurs to goofballs.
0:58.8	But I love questions, which is one reason I love doing this show.
1:05.3	Sometimes just reading the questions without the answers is illuminating.
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