80. Is a “Success Hangover” Real?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 2 January 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I remember saying to God, I swear I will never ask for another thing. |
| 0:07.4 | Now I want other things. |
| 0:11.2 | You're listening to No Stupid Questions, the podcast that explores the weird and wonderful |
| 0:16.2 | ways in which humans behave. |
| 0:18.5 | Here are your hosts, Stephen Dupner and Angela Duckworth. |
| 0:28.5 | Stephen, I have a question here from a pair of sunstrum from Sweden. |
| 0:32.6 | Mind if I read it to you? |
| 0:34.3 | I'd love to hear what pair of sunstrum from Sweden has to say. |
| 0:38.2 | I have a question, pair rights, loosely related to this past summer's UEFA Euro 2020. |
| 0:45.8 | Ah, the Euro's. |
| 0:47.8 | Can you just tell me what that is before I read you the rest? |
| 0:50.0 | It's soccer or what the rest of the world calls football. |
| 0:53.0 | Essentially, it is the World Cup for the European national teams. |
| 0:57.6 | So it's the World Cup but not for the world. |
| 0:59.8 | In some ways, it's better because the relationships and rivalries between, let's say, Sweden and |
| 1:06.2 | England, whatever, there's a lot, a lot of history between them. |
| 1:09.1 | So it was held this past summer, which was 2021 because in 2020, when it was supposed |
| 1:13.1 | to be, it was postponed for COVID. |
| 1:15.0 | This makes a lot more sense then because the question goes on, consider a situation where |
| 1:20.0 | a team has tried but failed to win a certain title for a long time. |
| 1:24.1 | And then suddenly, manages to emerge victorious. |
| 1:27.4 | I don't know if this had something to do with exactly what played out in the UEFA tournament. |
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