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No Stupid Questions · 2026-10-04 · 32 min · 5,342 words

95. What’s So Bad About Denial?

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They asked me to contract certain muscles in my stomach, and I was like, What muscles? I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Steven Dubner. And you're listening to no stupid questions. Today on the show.

Is denial a helpful method of dealing with grief? I think that Every single one of us has been in denial at least once. Not me. Never denied anything. Angela, we have a question here from a listener named

Anna, which I think you will find Very interesting. And fairly provocative. Are you ready? Yeah. So Anna writes that she's twenty three years old, she's a biology research

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