Love it, love the skirt, amazing.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

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

Today on the show, is it okay to do the right thing for the wrong reason?

I honestly don't care. I was just doing it to feel good. Mike, we have an email from Calvin, and I'm going to read it to you.

Okay, I'm excited.

As humans, we spend a lot of time exploring the idea of doing the wrong things for the right reasons,

especially in movies and books.

I think the undervalued idea is doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

Interesting.

For example, a billionaire donates a lot of money to charity because it's a tax write-off.

This billionaire has done a good thing, but for selfish reasons. Is this a

good thing or a bad thing? I guess he means is the action of donating a lot of money, good or

bad, given the intentions. How should we encourage or

discourage this from Calvin? Calvin my first thought though is how do you know that

the billionaire did it for the wrong reasons? I mean yes they got a

tax break but that doesn't mean that they didn't also care deeply about the

issue or cause I mean I immediately think of Bill Gates. Bill Gates is worth a ton of money.

He and his then wife formed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Yes, they get a massive tax right off. Yes, you could say it was the wrong reason because he wants to build up a reputation as this philanthropist in the last half of his life and he wants adulation and praise. But also I think Bill and Melinda Gates, each in their own way,

care deeply about the causes that they support.

You want to say that like we shouldn't assume that billionaires who get tax write-offs have poor motives.

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