46. How Can You Stop Feeling So Irritable?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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0:00.0	I think I'm having a breakthrough, Dr. Duckworth.
0:04.4	I am charging you for this.
0:05.8	Hey!
0:06.8	I'm Antelod Duckworth.
0:07.8	I'm Stephen Dubner.
0:08.8	And you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:11.2	Today I'm the show, how can you break free from irritability?
0:16.4	Let's not spend all this time together.
0:19.6	Also, is impatience actually a positive trait?
0:23.5	Yes, people need to be interrupting more.
0:26.1	Stephen, I have a question for you based on my recent experience personally.
0:32.8	How do you know whether the world is irritating or whether you're irritable?
0:38.8	Oh, it's you.
0:41.1	The world is never irritating.
0:42.6	I was just wondering, I'm glad to know that it's me.
0:46.1	Can you tell us what the personal experience was that got you so irritable?
0:50.4	This winter has been especially snowy icy and just, you know, in my family we call them
0:57.6	wet yuck days.
0:58.6	But I guess we should amend that by saying, I see snowy yuck days and there were days
1:02.5	where I took baby 500 steps.
1:05.3	And then maybe as a consequence of that didn't sleep well.
1:08.8	And I found myself to be, as we would say, my family kind of cranky podimus.
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