Okay, it's all coming together there.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

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

Today on the show, are there any benefits to neuroticism?

I actually know how this rodeo is going to end and it's going to be okay. My Mike, we are coming to the end of our Big Five Personality Series. Like this is the end.

This is the last one. It's been really fun. We all have personalities and it's been fun to learn more about my own and fun to see how everybody else ranks on all these ocean scales.

We have come to the last letter in Ocean, N for neuroticism.

And our last question in the series comes from Amanda,

not my daughter Amanda, somebody else named Amanda,

more than my daughter have that name.

Which is shocking.

It is shocking.

I was astonished to learn.

And Amanda asks us, Mike and Angela, I'm pretty much the poster child for neuroticism. As long as I can remember, I've been stressed.

I worry about everything from war and global warming to whether my friends are mad at me, even though they almost never are.

My father is a psychiatrist, so I was diagnosed with anxiety and OCD pretty early on, but therapy

and meds can only do so much.

I've accepted that this is pretty much who I am,

so I'm wondering if there's any silver lining here.

Are there any benefits at all to being a neurotic person?

Thank you, Amanda.

Whoof, that's a lot.

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