No Stupid Questions
Research psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one. So they have a podcast where they can ask each other as many “stupid questions” as they want. New episodes each week. "No Stupid Questions" is a production of the Freakonomics Radio Network. To get every show in the Freakonomi
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“rereading of Harry Potter be hinder my ability to form quote normal relationships in the long run”
“there was a time when people bought Julia Child's cookbook. And made cocoin for the first time”
“she's sitting by the pool reading for economics”
“I cannot take a paragraph out of freakonomics, copy it and paste it into my next book. call it my own and have it be anything other than plagiarism, plagiarism”
“in this case, he was spot on. Wilde is quoted as saying, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. However, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, a version of the idea originated with second century Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who in Meditations wrote, You should consider that imitation is the most acceptable part of worship”
“According to Barry's 1987 memoir, Chuck Berry The Autobiography, he felt taken advantage of early on in his music career”
“So I reached out to the author of a biography of loneliness, The History of an Emotion, to help me out. After the break, I talk with Fay Bound Alberty”
“So his most recent book is called The Sweet Spot. He wrote about a twenty sixteen paper. Looking at the happiness levels of people with and without children in twenty two countries”
“the doctor and researcher Dana Suskin at the University of Chicago has just published a book called Parent Nation”
“This was called The Study of Peculiar and Exceptional Children. And this was based on a survey that Bohanan Did at the time”
“If you've read his book, which I know you have, and I know I have, and I'm guessing many other people have, it's called Influence”
“The story is from psychiatrist George Valiant's nineteen seventy seven book. Adaptation to life”
“there is a kind of sleep revolution as Ariana Huffington calls it. And frankly, at this age, I'm trying to get more sleep”
“William Camden's 1636 publication, Remains Concerning Britain, which contained a list of English proverbs”
“And he wrote a really nice memoir called Misfit, Growing Up Awkward in the 80s”
“I think of a book from maybe thirty years ago by Neil Postman called Amusing Ourselves to Death”
“There are several canonical references that fit this description. But Angela was likely thinking of the thought experiment described by American philosopher Robert Nozick in his 1974 book. Anarchy, state, and utopia”
“As, for instance, Bob Putnam, the sociologist argued in his book Bowling Alone, it doesn't have to be religion”
“this book he wrote some years ago is called quite directly Don't Choke, A Champion's Guide to Winning Under Pressure”
“In the book, what is it like on writing? Yeah, exactly. He was reading a book'cause Stephen King reads while walking, even down the sidewalk in New York”
“You know, when I was in high school, I read Kandide. Did you read Kandide by Voltaire”
“Well, he wrote a book all about this. He's a bit of a evangelical Neo Maslowian trying to correct misunderstandings about Maslow”
“Later, Angela says that she thinks George Valiant, author of the 2002 book Aging Well, is a professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School”
“Also, there are books like Permission to Feel by Mark Brackett from Yale”
“So Adam Grant, your colleague, has written this book called Think Again, and I know that one argument about why people have such a hard time changing their minds is because A change of mind is essentially a threat to your identity”
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