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No Stupid Questions · 2025-10-12 · 37 min · 6,824 words

43. What Do We Really Learn From Failure?

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Fun and playful and hee hee hee ha ha ha ho ho ho. I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to No Stupid Questions. Today on the show, how do you find value in failure? Might not work, might not be fun, might lose a ton of money, but let's try it.

Also, what does teasing really accomplish? he would run over to me and say, you're a green fungus, and then he would run away. Stephen, we got an email recently that just took me back down memory lane. Can I read it to you? Please do.

Hi Stephen and Angela. I believe, but please fact check, I first heard you together on Tell Me Something I Don't Know. Why did the show end? And what did Stephen learn from the experience? Is it useful to know and to stop?

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