Hey there, I am Stephen Dubner. If you were listening last week, you know that this is the final new episode of No Stupid Questions. Everyone here at the Freakonomics Radio Network is proud of the five years worth of episodes we've made, and we are especially grateful for you, our amazing

community of listeners. And we don't want to leave you with nothing to listen to. So starting

next week, we are going to replay this series from the beginning, more than 200 episodes. So

come back then to hear the very first episode of No Stupid Questions.

And now for their final new episode, here are Angela and Mike.

I'm excited to learn from you what the purpose of life is.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Mike Mon.

And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

Today on the show, what do we do with unanswered questions?

What is life all about?

What is the nature of human existence?

Music Mike, this is our final episode.

And to be honest, it's a bittersweet moment.

It is a bittersweet moment.

I mean, look, together we've discussed so many amazing questions about human nature and the end of the show means that there are a lot of

questions that are going to go unanswered. Wait, we didn't answer all questions about human nature.

Shockingly, no. You know, in life, maybe there will be more questions. I mean, Mike, what do we do

with all the unanswered questions? Well, there, Angela Duckworth, is the question of questions.

Let's talk about that as our last conversation. How about that? I love that idea, because there are so

many unanswered questions. I mean, the way I kind of look at it, and I'm going to say this with

the confidence of a non-scientist,

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