Do I seem like an anti-mindfulness person?

Too crotchety to be mindful.

Because all the mindfulness people are like so nice.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

And I'm Stephen Dubner.

I'm a psychologist at Penn and I run an educational nonprofit called Character Lab.

You also wrote the book, Grit?

Yes.

And I am a writer and I host a podcast called Freakonomics Radio.

And you wrote the book, Freakonomics, among quite a few others?

I did.

And you and I became friends.

We did.

And we discovered that both of us really like to ask each other questions.

And there's only one rule.

The rule is there are no stupid questions.

Today on No Stupid Questions, how do you keep from losing your temper over things that just don't matter?

I have a terrible temper and when it erupts it's pretty bad.

I'm so angry I'm going to go to repoetry.

Also, why do so many of us have greater sympathy for dogs than humans?

I superimpose onto the face of every person who's annoying me the face of some dog.

This makes you nicer to them?

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