Note to self, never offer Angela any form of turkey.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Stephen Dubner.

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, what makes people angry?

Now I'm getting pissed off at your challenge.

And now you're getting got to work up about it.

Hey, hey, hey, you.

Angela, in our pursuit of understanding more deeply, what are traditionally called the

Seven Deadly Sins, we have come today to Wrath.

More commonly known as anger.

Sounds so much better as Wrath though, do you think?

Let's call it Wrath.

And this brings us to a question that we received from a listener named Grant Ashby.

And I suggest that if you aren't already sitting, you sit down.

So Grant writes to say, I used to read stories of people showing unbelievable compassion

and forgiveness even when they are the victim of a huge crime or misfortune.

I was always slightly confused as to what made them want to forgive until last year,

he writes, I was violently robbed with a machete in London.

Oh my God.

I ended up in hospital with severed muscles, bone tendons, and needing emergency surgery.

When I woke up, I felt gratitude that I was alive and that I had my family around me.

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