Oh, this is so embarrassing.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Stephen Dubner.

And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

Today on the show, does healing yourself necessarily heal society?

In case I'm merged to see you put on your oxygen mask first.

A million dollars to the person who can replace that metaphor with a better one.

Angela, there's a magazine that comes out once a year that I love from the New York

Times magazine, which I happened to have worked at.

My favorite issue is a year and one called The Lives They Lived, which looks back at

interesting people who have died in the previous year.

I've seen that.

We actually created that special issue when I was an editor there.

So I was involved in it.

And it was really fun to look back at all the people who had died in the previous year.

And not just commission pieces on the most famous or the most influential or whatnot, but

really the most interesting tangent upon a tangent.

We originally called it Not The Lives They Lived, but Lives Well Lived, which I think

ended up being a little too saccharine for our taste.

I like it though.

You know, life well lived.

It's very Aristotelian.

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