185. Do You Need Closure?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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What’s the best way to carry out random acts of kindness? What’s wrong with making an “Irish exit”? And why is Mike secretly buying lottery tickets?

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Angela here.
0:03.2	Before we begin today's show, I want to let you in on a special project Mike and I are working on.
0:08.8	We're planning a series of episodes of no stupid questions about personality and in anticipation of the first
0:15.7	episode we have a really fun quiz we're excited to share.
0:20.0	To check it out and to learn more about your personality, go to freakonomics.com
0:24.9	slash Big Five.
0:26.6	Take the Big Five inventory and get an immediate personality profile.
0:31.6	Your results will remain completely anonymous. And if you have a
0:34.7	question about personality, feel free to email us at NSQ at freakonomics.
0:40.0	com. We may be able to answer your question during the series.
0:44.0	Thanks and enjoy today's show.
0:50.0	Yeah, that was basically psychology a hundred years ago.
0:52.0	She was like, went to this restaurant and let me tell you what happened. Yeah, that was basically psychology a hundred years ago.
0:52.6	She was like, went to this restaurant.
0:54.2	And let me tell you what happened.
0:56.4	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:57.8	I'm Mike Mann.
0:58.9	And you're listening to no stupid questions.
1:02.3	Today on the show, do you need closure in order to move on?
1:06.0	When a lottery gets to over $1 billion, I call a friend in another state and Van
1:13.0	Moham's money. Mike, we have an email from Shreya Bargaver, and it is something I have long
1:30.5	wanted to talk about. Let's go.
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