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No Stupid Questions

80. Is a “Success Hangover” Real?

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Why are great accomplishments often followed by disappointment? Is it better to win and feel bummed out than to never have won at all? And where was ping-pong invented?

Transcript

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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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