It's not a reason that's a good reason. It's absolutely a reason.

I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions. Today on the show, why do we struggle

with relinquishing power? I'm going to hang on the power forever. I'm a king. I have a question for you today that I have been thinking about for a long time.

Right, shoot.

Why is it so hard for people to let go?

We see it everywhere, right?

So you've got CEOs who are hanging on to their companies for decades. We have US senators serving

into their 80s and 90s Supreme Court justices dying in office and if Trump

wins the US presidential election he'll be the the oldest president ever elected age 78.

Biden obviously dropped out of the race, but if he'd stayed in and won he would have been 82

when he took office again. Right?

So here's my question.

It seems that people nowadays, maybe always,

but people connect so deeply to their work

that they can't seem to let go or move on to what next.

So I'm curious, why you think it is that people have such a hard time letting

go of power or relevance and moving on, making way for the next generation.

You know, the first thing that leaps to mind is my own dad because

his work was really his identity and I think you know identity is a big part of this a huge

part of this yeah so huge part of this.

Yeah.

So my dad works for DuPont for almost the entirety of his professional career.

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