3. What Does It Mean to Be a “Hard Worker”?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0	Well, you really have lowered your expectations.
0:02.0	It's those vibes so happy.
0:05.6	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:06.8	And I'm Stephen Dubner.
0:07.6	I'm a psychologist at Penn and I run an educational nonprofit called Character Lab.
0:11.7	You also wrote the book, Grit.
0:12.9	Yes.
0:13.6	And I am a writer and I host a podcast called Freakonomics Radio.
0:16.9	And you wrote the book, Freakonomics, among quite a few others.
0:19.4	I did.
0:20.0	And you and I became friends.
0:21.4	We did.
0:21.9	And we discovered that both of us really like to ask each other questions.
0:26.0	And there's only one rule.
0:27.4	The rule is there are no stupid.
0:29.9	Questions.
0:31.9	Today on No Stupid Questions.
0:34.0	How do you know if you're a hard worker?
0:36.1	You come up with a few sailing examples, right?
0:38.8	You think of your wife.
0:40.0	You lazy?
0:40.8	No, she's not.
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