No Stupid Questions
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| Episode | Date |
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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 |