324 - 78. Why Do We Put Things Off Until the Very Last Minute?
Research psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one. So they have a podcast where they can ask each other as many “stupid questions” as they want. New episodes each week. "No Stupid Questions" is a production of the Freakonomics Radio Network.
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324 - 78. Why Do We Put Things Off Until the Very Last Minute?
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Research psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one. So they have a podcast where they can ask each other as many “stupid questions” as they want. New episodes each week. "No Stupid Questions" is a production of the Freakonomics Radio Network.
To get every show in the Freakonomics Radio Network without ads and a monthly bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio, start a free trial for SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.
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78. Why Do We Put Things Off Until the Very Last Minute?
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Sun, 7 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000
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77. How Can You Avoid Boredom?
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Sun, 31 May 2026
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76. Why Can’t Baby Boomers and Millennials Just Get Along?
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Sun, 24 May 2026
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75. How Do You Deal With Intrusive Thoughts?
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Sun, 17 May 2026
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74. Does Reverse Psychology Really Work?
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Sun, 10 May 2026
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73. Is It Okay to Engage in “Social Loafing”?
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Sun, 3 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000
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72. If Everyone Hates Meetings, Why Do We Have So Many of Them?
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Sun, 26 Apr 2026
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71. Why Is Pig Milk the One Milk We Don’t Drink?
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Sun, 19 Apr 2026
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70. In a Job Interview, How Much Does Timing Matter?
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Sun, 12 Apr 2026
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69. How Can You Convince Someone They’re Wrong?
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Sun, 5 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000
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68. Why Do We Want What We Can’t Have?
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Sun, 29 Mar 2026
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67. How Can You Escape Binary Thinking?
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Sun, 22 Mar 2026
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65. What’s the Best Advice You’ve Ever Received?
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Sun, 15 Mar 2026
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64. Are Women Required to Be Nicer Than Men?
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Sun, 8 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0000
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63. How Contagious Is Behavior? With Laurie Santos of “The Happiness Lab.” (Replay)
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Sun, 1 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0000
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62. How Can You Escape a Drama Triangle?
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Sun, 22 Feb 2026
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61. Should We Just Ignore Our Weaknesses?
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Sun, 15 Feb 2026
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60. Why Do We Complain?
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Sun, 8 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0000
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59. Do Dreams Actually Mean Anything?
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Sun, 1 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0000
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58. What’s So Gratifying About Gossip?
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Sun, 25 Jan 2026
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57. Which Incentives Are Best at Boosting Vaccination, and Why?
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Sun, 18 Jan 2026
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56. Why Is Academic Writing So Bad?
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Sun, 11 Jan 2026
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55. What Changes Will Stick When the Pandemic Is Gone?
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Sun, 4 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0000
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54. Do You Really Need a Muse to Be Creative?
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Sun, 28 Dec 2025
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53. What’s the Secret to Making a Great Prediction?
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Sun, 21 Dec 2025
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52. How Much Should We Be Able to Customize Our World?
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Sun, 14 Dec 2025
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51. What Separates Humans From Other Animals?
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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 01:00:00 +0000
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50. Are You as Observant as You Think?
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Sun, 30 Nov 2025
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49. How Does Facing Death Change Your Life?
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Sun, 23 Nov 2025
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48. Do Good Deeds Invite More Bad Ones?
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Sun, 16 Nov 2025
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47. Is Laziness Real?
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Sun, 9 Nov 2025 01:00:00 +0000
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46. How Can You Stop Feeling So Irritable?
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Sun, 2 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000
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45. How Much Better Do You Really Want to Be?
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Sun, 26 Oct 2025
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44. Is Empathy in Fact Immoral?
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Sun, 19 Oct 2025
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43. What Do We Really Learn From Failure?
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Sun, 12 Oct 2025
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42. How Does When You Are Born Affect Who You Are?
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Sun, 5 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000
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41. Why Are We So Attracted to Fame?
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Sun, 28 Sep 2025
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40. Have We All Lost Our Ability to Compromise?
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Sun, 21 Sep 2025
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39. Is Everybody Cheating These Days?
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Sun, 14 Sep 2025
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38. What Does It Mean to Be a “Good” Man?
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Sun, 7 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000
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37. How Do You Know if People Don’t Like You?
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Sun, 31 Aug 2025
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36. Which Matters More, a First or Last Impression?
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Sun, 24 Aug 2025
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35. Does Psychotherapy Actually Work?
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Sun, 17 Aug 2025
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34. Are Humans Smarter or Stupider Than We Used to Be?