No Stupid Questions
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Episodes: 259
RL Hall
Jul 8, 2024
My all time favorite podcast! Mike is a great followup to Steven. Always thoughtful and entertaining.
M
Apr 20, 2024
dimang
Dec 14, 2022
Olga
Jul 24, 2022
love it
Jul 22, 2022
Jun 18, 2022
Interesting and fun psych podcast. Every podcast should have a fact checker at the end.
May 29, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
Mar 12, 2022
Lucas Thomson
Aug 26, 2021
John García
Aug 25, 2021
its an incredible podcast
RL Hall
Mar 8, 2021
I love all 3 of the Freakonomics podcasts, but this one is by far the best. I love to hear the conversing between these 2 intelligent, curious, and engaging people. Please keep them coming!
Feb 14, 2021
Lara
Jan 3, 2021
So interesting. Professional presenters who don't talk over each other
Dec 6, 2020
Aug 23, 2020
Jul 19, 2020
Description
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14. Are You a Maximizer or a Satisficer?
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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13. How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People?
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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12. Does “As If” Thinking Really Work?
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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11. Are Ambitious People Inherently Selfish?
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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10. Why Are Stories Stickier Than Statistics?
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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9. Why Is It So Hard to Be Alone With Our Thoughts?
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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8. Wouldn’t It Be Better to Hear Your Eulogy Before You’re Dead?
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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7. How Do You Handle Criticism?
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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6. Is Incompetence a Form of Dishonesty?
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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5. What Do Tom Sawyer and the Founder of Duolingo Have in Common?
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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4. Does All Creativity Come From Pain?
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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3. What Does It Mean to Be a “Hard Worker”?
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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2. What is the Optimal Way to Be Angry?
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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1. Did Covid-19 Kill the Handshake?
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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223. What About All the Questions We Haven’t Answered?
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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222. What Makes an Idea Interesting?
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Is It Weird for Adults to Have Imaginary Friends? (Replay)
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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221. Why Are We So Pessimistic?
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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220. Is Your Attention Span Shrinking?
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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219. How Do You Identify a Narcissist?
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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How Can You Give Better Gifts? (Replay)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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218. Why Do Parents Overshare on Social Media?
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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217. What Happens When You Put on a Costume?
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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216. Why Do We Make Excuses?
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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215. Is It Okay to Do the Right Thing for the Wrong Reason?
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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214. What Does It Take to Survive a Scandal?
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Why Do People Love Horror Movies? (Replay)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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213. What Is Evil?
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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212. When Do You Become an Adult?
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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211. Why Do We Listen to Sad Songs?
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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210. What Makes a Good Sense of Humor?
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Why Are Stories Stickier Than Statistics? (Replay)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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209. Why Do We Settle?
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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208. Can A.I. Companions Replace Human Connection?
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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207. How Clearly Do You See Yourself?
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Why Do People Get Scammed? (Replay)
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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206. When Is It Time to Step Aside?
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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205. Where Do Values Come From?
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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204. What Happens When You’re Cut Off From All Human Contact?
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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203. Do You Need a Hug?
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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How Effective Are Ultimatums? (Replay)
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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202. Why Can’t We Tolerate Discomfort?
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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201. Are You Dreaming Too Big?
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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200. What’s the Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy?
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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199. What Makes a Good Gathering?
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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198. What Does It Mean to Be “Cool”?
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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197. Is It Wrong to Lie to Children?
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May 26, 2024 |
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Extra: Angela Duckworth on “Masters of Scale”
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May 23, 2024 |
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196. What’s Wrong With Being a Little Neurotic?
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May 19, 2024 |
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195. Can You Be Too Nice?
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May 12, 2024 |
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194. Is It Okay to Be an Introvert?
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May 05, 2024 |
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193. Are You as Conscientious as You Think You Are?
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Should You Get Out of Your Comfort Zone?
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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191. Can You Change Your Personality?
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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190. What’s the Point of Nostalgia?
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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189. When Should You Trust Your Gut?
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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188. Why Do Kids Today Get So Many A’s?
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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187. Is Fear Running Your Life?
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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186. Do You Need a Routine?
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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185. Do You Need Closure?
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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184. Are You Doing Too Much?
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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183. Does Free Will Exist, and Does It Matter?
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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182. Is It Good or Bad to Keep Secrets?
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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181. What’s So Great About Meritocracy?
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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180. What Makes Some Objects Feel Special?
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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179. Can You Really “Manifest” Success Through Positive Visualization?
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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178. Do Kids Need More Independence?
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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177. What Does Success Look Like?
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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63. How Contagious Is Behavior? With Laurie Santos of “The Happiness Lab.” (Replay)
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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176. Why Is It So Hard to Make Decisions?
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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175. Why Is Astrology So Popular?
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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174. What’s the Point of I.Q. Testing?
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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173. How Important Is Your Choice of Words?
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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149. Is It Harder to Make Friends as an Adult? (Replay)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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172. Is Marriage Worth It?
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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171. Where Is the Line Between Exaggeration and Lying?
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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170. Are We Getting Lonelier?
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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169. Can We Disagree Better?
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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168. Would You Be Happier if You Were More Creative?
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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167. Is GPS Changing Your Brain?
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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166. Are You Suffering From Burnout?
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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165. Do "Generations" Mean Anything?
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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164. Do You Have Impostor Syndrome?
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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163. Does Your DNA Determine Your Weight?
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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162. How Can You Be Kinder to Yourself?
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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161. How Effective Are Ultimatums?
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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160. How Do You Like Me Now?
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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159. How Much Personal Space Do You Need?
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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158. Bigger Fish, or Bigger Pond?
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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157. How Can You Get Closer to the People You Care About?
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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156. How Do You Connect With Someone You Just Met?
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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155. How Do You Deal With Big Life Changes?
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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154. Why Is There So Much Social Pressure Around Alcohol?
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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153. Should You Spend More Time in Nature?
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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152. What’s the Worst Kind of Regret?
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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151. Is It Okay to Be Average?
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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150. Why Do People Get Scammed?
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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149. Is It Harder to Make Friends as an Adult?
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Do You Savor or Gobble? (Ep. 91 Replay)
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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148. What Is Fun, Exactly?
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May 28, 2023 |
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147. Is Nudging Enough?
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May 21, 2023 |
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146. How Do You Avoid Freezing Under Pressure?
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May 14, 2023 |
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145. Do You Have a Scarcity Mindset or an Abundance Mindset?
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May 07, 2023 |
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144. What Should Be the Eighth Deadly Sin?
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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143. How Sinful Are "No Stupid Questions" Listeners?
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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142. Is Pride the Worst Sin?
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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141. Is Greed Good?
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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140. Is Envy Healthy?
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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139. Why Do We Get Angry?
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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138. Why is Everyone Having Less Sex?
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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137. Are We All Addicted to Ultra-Processed Foods?
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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136. Is Sloth a Sin or a Virtue?
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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135. What Should You Do on Your Birthday?
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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134. Will You Live to Be 100?
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Money? (Ep. 81 Replay)
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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133. Can You Really Work on an Airplane?
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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132. Is It Wrong to Enjoy Yourself While the World Is Burning?
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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131. Why Do We Cry?
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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130. Why Is It So Hard to Resist Temptation?
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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129. Why Do We Cheat, and Why Shouldn’t We?
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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What’s So Great About Retirement? (Ep. 87 Replay)
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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128. How Can You Give Better Gifts?
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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127. How Can You Be a Better Communicator?
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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126. Why Do People Love Horror Movies?
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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125. Should We Replace Umpires With Robots?
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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124. How Do You Stop Grinding Your Teeth?
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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123. What’s Wrong With Coveting?
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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When Is It OK to Tell a Lie? (Replay from Ep. 66)
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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122. Is Family Overrated?
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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121. How Good Are Your Snap Judgments?
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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120. Why Are Rich Countries So Unhappy?
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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119. J***s C****t, Angela, Why Are You Such a F***ing Potty-Mouth?
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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118. How Do You Keep Winter From Getting You Down?
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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117. What’s Wrong With Holding a Grudge?
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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116. Do People Pay Attention to Signs?
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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115. Are You Having a Midlife Crisis?
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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114. Can You Learn to Love Hard Work?
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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113. How Can You Improve Your Mental Endurance?
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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112. Is It Okay to Hate Highbrow Culture?
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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111. Would You Be Happier if You Lived Someplace Else?
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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110. Why Is Angela Stepping Down as C.E.O. of the Nonprofit She Founded?
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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What’s the Best Advice You’ve Ever Received? (Replay from Ep. 65)
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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109. What Is the Purpose of Embarrassment?
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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108. Should You Try to Be Less Angry?
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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107. Is It Worth It for Charities to Harass Their Donors?
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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106. Did Your Early Childhood Determine the Course of Your Life?
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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How Does Facing Death Change Your Life? (Replay from Ep. 49)
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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105. Should You Give Kids an Allowance or Make Them Get Jobs?
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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104. How Simple Is Too Simple?
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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103. Should Toilets Be Free?
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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102. What’s So Bad About Nepotism?
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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101. Are You Really "Addicted" to Diet Coke?
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May 29, 2022 |
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100. Is It Weird for Adults to Have Imaginary Friends?
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May 22, 2022 |
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99. Do You Mind if I Borrow Your Personality?
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May 15, 2022 |
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98. Is Having Children Worth It?
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May 08, 2022 |
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97. Are Women Really Less Happy Than Men?
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May 01, 2022 |
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96. Why Is Chick-fil-A Such a Big Deal?
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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95. What’s So Bad About Denial?
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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94. What to Do When Everything Looks Like a Catastrophe?
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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93. Does the Early Bird Really Catch the Worm? Or Could the Night Owl Get There First?
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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92. Is Poor Nutrition a Supply Problem or a Demand Problem?
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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91. Do You Savor or Gobble?
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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90. If America Is a Train Wreck, Why Am I Doing Fine?
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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89. How Valuable Is Enthusiasm?
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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88. Is Self-Improvement Too Selfish?
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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87. What’s So Great About Retirement?
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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86. Should We All Be Taking More Long Shots?
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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85. Is Emotional Intelligence Really So Important?
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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84. Why Do We Find So Much Meaning in Meaningless Coincidences?
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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83. Can You Change Your Mind Without Losing Face?
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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82. Which Is More Powerful: Reward or Punishment?
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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81. Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Money?
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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80. Is a “Success Hangover” Real?
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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79. Why Do We Root for Underdogs?
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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78. Why Do We Put Things Off Until the Very Last Minute?
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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77. How Can You Avoid Boredom?
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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76. Why Can’t Baby Boomers and Millennials Just Get Along?
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar? (NSQ Ep. 30 Replay)
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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75. How Do You Deal With Intrusive Thoughts?
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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74. Does Reverse Psychology Really Work?
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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73. Is It Okay to Engage in “Social Loafing”?
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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72. If Everyone Hates Meetings, Why Do We Have So Many of Them?
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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71. Why Is Pig Milk the One Milk We Don’t Drink?
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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How Much Do Your Friends Affect Your Future? (NSQ Ep. 31 Replay)
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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70. In a Job Interview, How Much Does Timing Matter?
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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69. How Can You Convince Someone They’re Wrong?
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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68. Why Do We Want What We Can’t Have?
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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67. How Can You Escape Binary Thinking?
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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66. When Is It OK to Tell a Lie?
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Why Do We Forget So Much of What We’ve Read? (Ep. 24 Rebroadcast)
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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65. What’s the Best Advice You’ve Ever Received?
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Why Do We Buy Things We Never Use? (Rebroadcast From Ep.22)
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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64. Are Women Required to Be Nicer Than Men?
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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63. How Contagious Is Behavior? With Laurie Santos of “The Happiness Lab.”
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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62. How Can You Escape a Drama Triangle?
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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61. Should We Just Ignore Our Weaknesses?
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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60. Why Do We Complain?
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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59. Do Dreams Actually Mean Anything?
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People? (Ep. 13 Rebroadcast)
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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58. What’s So Gratifying About Gossip?
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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57. Which Incentives Are Best at Boosting Vaccination, and Why?
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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56. Why Is Academic Writing So Bad?
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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55. What Changes Will Stick When the Pandemic Is Gone?
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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54. Do You Really Need a Muse to Be Creative?
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May 30, 2021 |
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53. What’s the Secret to Making a Great Prediction?
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May 23, 2021 |
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52. How Much Should We Be Able to Customize Our World?
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May 16, 2021 |
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51. What Separates Humans From Other Animals?
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May 09, 2021 |
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50. Are You as Observant as You Think?
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May 02, 2021 |
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49. How Does Facing Death Change Your Life?
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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48. Do Good Deeds Invite More Bad Ones?
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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47. Is Laziness Real?
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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46. How Can You Stop Feeling So Irritable?
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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45. How Much Better Do You Really Want to Be?
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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44. Is Empathy in Fact Immoral?
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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43. What Do We Really Learn From Failure?
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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42. How Does When You Are Born Affect Who You Are?
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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41. Why Are We So Attracted to Fame?
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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40. Have We All Lost Our Ability to Compromise?
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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39. Is Everybody Cheating These Days?
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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38. What Does It Mean to Be a “Good” Man?
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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37. How Do You Know if People Don’t Like You?
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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36. Which Matters More, a First or Last Impression?
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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35. Does Psychotherapy Actually Work?
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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34. Are Humans Smarter or Stupider Than We Used to Be?
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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33. Is Optimism a Luxury Good?
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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How Much of Your Life Do You Actually Control? (Ep. 15 Rebroadcast)
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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32. Which Gets You Further: Talent or Effort?
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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31. How Much Do Your Friends Affect Your Future?
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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30. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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29. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Quit?
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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28. Why Do We Hoard?
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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27. How Should You Ask for Forgiveness?
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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26. Do Checklists Make People Stupid?
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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25. Is Hedonism Better Than Self-Control?
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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24. Why Do We Forget So Much of What We’ve Read?
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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23. Is It Wrong to Crave Praise?
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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22. Why Do We Buy Things We’ll Never Use?
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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21. How Can You Identify Hidden Talent? With Eric Schmidt.
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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20. Should We Separate the Art From the Artist?
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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19. Is There Such a Thing as Good Estrangement?
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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18. How Do You Raise a “Likable” Kid?
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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17. How Can We Get More Virtue and Less ‘Virtue Signaling’?
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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16. What’s the Downside to Being Goal-Oriented?
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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15. How Much of Your Life Do You Actually Control?
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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14. Are You a Maximizer or a Satisficer?
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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13. How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People?
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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12. Does “As If” Thinking Really Work?
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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11. Are Ambitious People Inherently Selfish?
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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10. Why Are Stories Stickier Than Statistics?
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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9. Why Is It So Hard to Be Alone With Our Thoughts?
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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8. Wouldn’t It Be Better to Hear Your Eulogy Before You’re Dead?
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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7. How Do You Handle Criticism?
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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6. Is Incompetence a Form of Dishonesty?
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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5. What Do Tom Sawyer and the Founder of Duolingo Have in Common?
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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4. Does All Creativity Come From Pain?
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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3. What Does It Mean to Be a “Hard Worker”?
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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2. What is the Optimal Way to Be Angry?
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May 25, 2020 |
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1. Did Covid-19 Kill the Handshake?
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May 18, 2020 |
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Introducing "No Stupid Questions"
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Apr 24, 2020 |