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No Stupid Questions · 2026-11-01 · 35 min · 5,961 words

99. Do You Mind if I Borrow Your Personality?

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I have bad habits too, like Interrupting people and eating off of other people's plates. I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Steven Dubner. And you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show. Is it wrong to plagiariz someone else's personality? Somebody wrote to me to say, I heard you ask this question and you stole it from those guys. I was like First of all, Bucko. Angela, we recently discussed on the show

your email signature. Mm-hmm. Which I Admired so much. that I started using it myself. So at the end of every email I now send from my work email address at least, the signature reads, My work hours may not be your work hours. reply if you want. When you want.

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