Wait a minute.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Mike Mon, and you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

Today on the show, what makes an idea interesting?

Oh, hey, look over here.

What you thought was true is not true.

Okay. What you thought was true is not true. Angela, I am so excited to be with you today.

But first things first, even before we hop into today's conversation, we have an important announcement to make.

That's right.

Mike, after five years and more than 200 episodes, next week will be the last episode of No Stupid Questions.

And I want to say, I have loved doing this podcast.

First, co-hosting with Stephen, now Mike with you.

We love our listeners.

We love their questions.

But like all good things, this one must eventually come to an end.

And I've loved doing it with you. And I know we both are so grateful to all of our listeners for their questions to us over years, because they've been the catalyst for us to talk about

a lot of interesting ideas on this show, whether it's a piece of research, a philosophical

concept, a think piece from a newspaper or magazine.

So I thought, Angela, given that this is our second to last episode, that it might be appropriate

to address sort of a meta question. And I just wanted to talk about why are certain ideas

so captivating? What makes an idea interesting? What makes an idea interesting versus, I guess,

boring, right? Yeah. Yeah, I think so. You know, there is an article that I have read and reread and read

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