These job descriptions suck.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Stephen Dubner.

And you're listening to those stupid questions.

Today on the show, why is Angela stepping down as CEO of the nonprofit she founded?

No one ever wanted to use my ideas and pay attention to me, but I don't want to do the hard work

of leadership.

Angela, I noticed that your email sign off has changed.

It used to say founder and CEO of Character Lab.

And now it says co-founder and chief scientist, you're no longer CEO.

Did you get demoted?

Have you been embroiled in an unforgivable scandal we should be talking about today?

Is there something unseemly that you therefore must know about immediately?

I'm sure there is.

I mean, there have been things afoot.

This is nonprofit that you know all about, Character Lab.

Our mission is to advance scientific insights that help kids thrive.

And you do that by producing research primarily or you do that by bribing children?

What do you do?

All we want to do is help the world's best behavioral scientists do more and better research

on kids and how they grow up in ways that are great.

So we're really in a way like stage crew for world class psychologists, also economists.

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