I think I'm having a breakthrough, Dr. Duckworth.

I am charging you for this.

Hey!

I'm Antelod Duckworth.

I'm Stephen Dubner.

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today I'm the show, how can you break free from irritability?

Let's not spend all this time together.

Also, is impatience actually a positive trait?

Yes, people need to be interrupting more.

Stephen, I have a question for you based on my recent experience personally.

How do you know whether the world is irritating or whether you're irritable?

Oh, it's you.

The world is never irritating.

I was just wondering, I'm glad to know that it's me.

Can you tell us what the personal experience was that got you so irritable?

This winter has been especially snowy icy and just, you know, in my family we call them

wet yuck days.

But I guess we should amend that by saying, I see snowy yuck days and there were days

where I took baby 500 steps.

And then maybe as a consequence of that didn't sleep well.

And I found myself to be, as we would say, my family kind of cranky podimus.

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