149. Is It Harder to Make Friends as an Adult?

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149. Is It Harder to Make Friends as an Adult?

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Jun 11, 2023

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How do friendships change as we get older? Should you join a bowling league? And is Angela more important to Mike than Mike is to Angela?

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Jun 11, 2023

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Stephen Dubner (co-author of the Freakonomics book series) and research psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of Grit) really like to ask people questions, and came to believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one. So they made 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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