49. How Does Facing Death Change Your Life?
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What do I need to do to you people? Do you need a telegram? I'm trying to teach you a lesson. I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Steven Dubner.
And you're listening to the listening to No Stupid Questions. Today on the show, how does facing death change your life? You're with a person who already was an ex-boyfriend. Yeah, I know. That's near death right there.
Also, should we be more concerned about things that are high impact or high probability? Would you rather take a chance that there's a nuclear war or have nobody in America ever wear a seatbelt again? So Angela, I recently had a near-death experience, and if I died, It would have been not funny exactly, but at least like an O'Henry short story because I almost got killed in a traffic accident while driving back from getting my second COVID vaccine shot. Oh, that would have been a great short story.
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