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No Stupid Questions

30. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Also: is a little knowledge truly a dangerous thing?

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0:00.0

Oh wait, someone had a question about something.

0:03.3

Surely I have the answer to it.

0:05.2

Hey!

0:06.2

I'm Antilla Duckworth.

0:07.3

I'm Stephen Dovner.

0:08.4

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

0:11.7

Today on the show, how much is your mood driven by the media you consume?

0:16.8

You've never seen love actually?

0:18.4

I've heard of it.

0:19.5

You've never seen love actually?

0:21.6

Also, is a little knowledge worse than complete ignorance?

0:25.6

I told them to turn right and it should have been left.

0:28.2

Oh God, you are going to hell.

0:30.4

Angela, I've got a question for you here from a listener today.

0:37.1

Her name is Masha Yoveva and she writes to say, I, like most people these days, have been

0:42.3

feeling a bit down-tired.

0:43.8

I don't mean to laugh at you.

0:45.9

Masha, demotivated and easily depleted, though not depressed.

0:50.0

So first of all, before we get into Masha's question, Angie, do you think most people

0:54.0

are feeling a bit down-tired, demotivated and depleted?

0:57.2

I think there's actually pretty good data on the fact that, yes, absolutely.

1:02.0

Now that we're grinding into month nine of the pandemic, at least the United States,

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