6. Is Incompetence a Form of Dishonesty?

I haven't spiraled yet and I'm pretty old. Just make it a few more years and you'll be good. I'm just running out the clock now. I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Steven Dubner. And you're listening to no stupid questions. Today, on the show.

Is it immoral to slack off at work when others are depending on you to do a good job? I had a tiny bit of authority as an umpire of a minor Little League game and I exploited it for my own benefit. Also. How valuable is it to have a personal mission statement? That sounds like a marketing scam. I can sell you one, and it comes with a set of steak knives. Angela Duckworth, I have What may be a truly stupid question? But this is the one place I'm allowed to ask it. That's right.

So here it goes. Do you believe as I do that incompetence is often a form of dishonesty. And I can spell out further what I mean by that if you'd like. I have a first intuition which is no, but why don't you elaborate a little bit? Yeah. Okay. So I realize it's a murky question, but what I'm suggesting is this I have encountered a lot of people who consider themselves good people, moral and righteous and pro social, and so on. who happen to be not very good at what they do professionally.

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