Oxford is so excited that you have compared them to McDonald's right now.

I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, does it matter if you believe in free will?

I'm quite sure that the thinking on this perennial question will be improved, not a wit, but I'm just going to say that it's probably not the question we should be talking

about.

That's like when someone starts and said I probably shouldn't be telling you and you're like well

then maybe you shouldn't be telling me.

This is the question I probably shouldn't be asking you but I kind of want to talk about it.

Does free will exist?

Oh.

And here's the real question.

Does it even matter that we think about this question.

I think this is fascinating because my oldest

brother. Is this the perfect one? Well they're all pretty perfect. Yeah that's so

true. Dave is the one who I think like just life always works out and he's the

one maybe I refer to that way.

Peter is the smartest of my siblings and the most thoughtful.

Oh my God, this is like a children's book from China.

Go on.

By thoughtful, I mean he like goes through these questions and he has spent I think a lot of his adult life thinking about does free will exist.

I think everybody thinks about this like when you're a junior in high school and you have to write a paper for English language arts and you decide to take on the topic of free will.

I'm going to admit I hadn't until I got into adulthood and he was reading a book called

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