31. How Much Do Your Friends Affect Your Future?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 13 December 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Also: which professions have the happiest people?

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0:00.0	So wait, you're saying you're deeper than me?
0:02.0	Yeah, Avi.
0:04.3	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:07.3	I'm Stephen Dobner.
0:08.3	And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
0:11.7	Today on the show,
0:12.8	do your friendships predict how successful you'll be in life?
0:16.0	My friends are all practically manic.
0:18.8	They're so like,
0:19.8	Laugh!
0:20.6	Also, how do different occupations correlate with happiness?
0:24.6	You were the bricklayer who is not building the Temple of God.
0:27.8	You were just the bricklayer.
0:28.9	Yeah, I was just building the outhouse.
0:30.9	Yeah.
0:32.9	Stephen, I have a question that was tweeted at us by,
0:39.1	at death by foie.
0:41.4	Is the correlation of your five closest friends a real predictor of success
0:46.3	and where you're going in life?
0:48.4	Oh, I like that question.
0:49.7	I can see why you like the question too,
0:51.5	because I know that you care about and study friendship.
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