2. What is the Optimal Way to Be Angry?
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Do I seem like an anti-mindfulness person? Too crotchety to be mindful. Because all the mindfulness people are like so nice. I'm Angela Duckworth. And I'm Steven Dubner.
I'm a psychologist at Penn and I run an educational nonprofit called Character Lab. You also wrote the book Grit. Yes. And I am a writer and I host a podcast called Freconomics Radio. And you wrote the book Freeconomics among quite a few others.
I did. And you and I became friends. We did, and we discovered that both of us really like to ask each other questions. And there's only one rule. The rule is there are no stupid questions.
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