Do You Savor or Gobble? (Ep. 91 Replay)

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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What’s the difference between people who preserve special things and people who devour them right away? Why do we love to binge-watch? And did Adam really eat an apple?

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0:00.0	Hi, NSQ listeners.
0:01.6	This week, we're replaying one of our favorite episodes
0:04.0	from the archive.
0:05.3	A conversation from last year in which Angela and Steven
0:08.2	divided the world into two very different kinds of people.
0:12.1	Angela will be back next week with guest host Mike Mon.
0:15.7	Now, here's episode 91 from March 2022.
0:19.4	Do you savor or gobble?
0:24.2	The average elementary school student
0:26.4	would have naft the teacher.
0:29.4	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:30.8	I'm Steven Dubner.
0:31.8	And you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:35.2	Today on the show, what is the difference
0:37.6	between a person who sabers and someone who devours?
0:41.4	This makes me even more suspicious of the marshmallow fury
0:45.4	because you're thinking I win my one marshmallow girl, obviously.
0:49.2	Angela, I have a question for which there is certainly no right answer.
0:58.6	Oh, my favorite kind of question.
1:00.7	The question is as follows.
1:01.8	When you get something new and or valuable or just desirable,
1:09.8	are you personally more inclined to treasure it and save it for special occasions
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