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No Stupid Questions

How Much of Your Life Do You Actually Control? (Ep. 15 Rebroadcast)

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Also: why do we procrastinate?

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0:00.0

Angela Duckworth.

0:01.2

Stephen Devner.

0:02.4

We've been making this podcast for about seven months,

0:05.5

and we're about to publish here our first ever repeat,

0:09.4

because the holiday. You okay with that?

0:11.3

With a rerun? Yeah, I'm all right with that.

0:13.5

I was thinking though, instead of calling it a rerun,

0:16.0

I wonder if we should rebrand it, if we should

0:18.5

psychologically manipulate our listeners into thinking that this

0:22.7

perhaps familiar episode is the way that love actually is for you,

0:27.2

maybe even better. Better and better and better.

0:31.3

Yeah, why don't we call it like no stupid questions actually?

0:35.4

I can't improve upon that.

0:37.8

But Angela, I will say in all seriousness,

0:39.6

it's been a lot of fun doing this with you,

0:42.3

and I hope you have a great break with your family.

0:44.7

Stephen, I want to tell you that I'm going to miss you.

0:47.5

Oh, it's nice you to say.

0:49.2

Aww.

0:51.0

I'm Angela Duckworth.

0:52.1

I'm Stephen Devner, and you're listening to no stupid questions.

0:55.3

Today on the show, how much of your life is in your control?

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