Before we start today's show, I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the recent

passing of Dr. Danny Kahneman. Danny was, in my opinion, one of the greatest

psychologists of all time, if not the greatest psychologist of all time. And what's more Danny's character was without comparison. He was

gracious and kind. He was quick to apologize and loath to take credit. The world is not the same without

his brilliant mind. We hope you enjoy today's show which like so many of our episodes

relies heavily on Danny's work to answer a not so stupid question about human behavior.

He will be sorely missed.

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I'm Angela Duckworth.

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

Today on the show, is your intuition leading you astray?

You think you're trusting your gut, but really you're just panicking. Angela, I think we have a really fascinating question today from a listener named Rebecca. She says this, my son has been having

issues with sleep for months. We've tried various forms of sleep training, but I've

never been able to fully commit to them.

Sleep training often involves letting a baby cry for a certain period of time

so that they can learn to fall asleep on their own.

Listening to him cry like this has made me second-guess everything I read from

pediatric sleep experts. Angela you're a mom I know your kids are in college now

but you've been through this is this resonating? Yes a crisis of the soul. I remember when

Amanda was sleep training. I must have lived in San Francisco with Jason at the time and she was our first so I don't know if Rebecca's a first time mom but it sounds like it and I go to this sleep training class and we're like in a circle of moms and

the sleep trainer is of course doing what sleep trainers do which is she's trying

to get us to all let our kids cry more. They're like,

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