82. Which Is More Powerful: Reward or Punishment?
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Everyone. Get into your seats right now. You're listening to No Stupid Questions, the podcast that explores the weird and occasionally wonderful ways in which humans behave. Here are your hosts. Steven Dubner and Angela Duckworth.
Angela, I have today the question I think to end all questions. Great. We'll be Finished with the whole podcast. I think we're done after this. Drops Mike. This is elemental. And you're the person to answer it. Okay, no pressure. And I can't believe it took me A year and a half of making the show to ask you. I'm on Tenter Hooks. What are Tenter Hooks anyway?
The things you hang uh side of beef. Yeah, there's a carcass involved or something. The metaphor works because why? Um I guess if you're on them you really want to get off? But doesn't the phrase mean when you're on Tenter'cause like I can't wait to Yeah, yeah,'cause I want to get off these tenter hooks. It's very uncomfortable. That feels like a very halfway metaphor.
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