83. Can You Change Your Mind Without Losing Face?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What is the cost of admitting you’re wrong? How can intellectual humility make you more open minded? And will Stephen finally persuade Angela that rum-raisin is the best flavor of ice cream?

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0:00.0	This is BS.
0:03.6	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:06.0	I'm Stephen Dubner.
0:07.0	And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
0:10.7	Today on the show, what's the cost of admitting you're wrong?
0:14.5	Ooh, this is so uncomfortable.
0:15.9	I don't really want to do it.
0:17.6	No, no, wait, hold on.
0:18.8	I'm going to put up my grown-up pants.
0:20.4	Angela, I recently had an embarrassing moment that I thought I could turn into a question
0:31.1	for you.
0:32.1	But will not be embarrassing for you.
0:34.1	This is like my favorite thing.
0:36.6	It's going to be embarrassing for you.
0:38.3	Exactly.
0:39.3	Great.
0:40.3	So I was having a conversation with a neighbor of mine, an elderly Japanese fellow, and the
0:47.1	shoes I was wearing happened to be this brand of Japanese sneaker that I love.
0:52.1	I've been wearing them since high school.
0:54.2	Wait, what's the brand?
0:55.9	They're called Onitsuka Tiger, or so I thought.
0:59.2	Oh, I think I know what these look like.
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