53. What’s the Secret to Making a Great Prediction?
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This is what we're gonna do. It's going to work out well because I said so. I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Stephen Dubner, and you're listening to No Stupid Questions. Today on the show, what's the secret to making a great prediction?
My prediction would have been right if these things had happened. Also, why do even the most successful people have bad days? The eggs were overcooked. Angela Duckworth. Stephen Dubner.
There is at least one way that I would very much like to be more like my son, Solomon, who's a college sophomore. He seems capable of making predictions in a way that is totally divorced from emotion, even when he has a stake in the thing he's predicting. So As an example, he works in politics. Okay.
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