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52. How Much Should We Be Able to Customize Our World?

12/14/2025 • 38 min

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51. What Separates Humans From Other Animals?
50. Are You as Observant as You Think?
49. How Does Facing Death Change Your Life?
48. Do Good Deeds Invite More Bad Ones?
47. Is Laziness Real?
46. How Can You Stop Feeling So Irritable?
45. How Much Better Do You Really Want to Be?
44. Is Empathy in Fact Immoral?
43. What Do We Really Learn From Failure?
42. How Does When You Are Born Affect Who You Are?
41. Why Are We So Attracted to Fame?
40. Have We All Lost Our Ability to Compromise?
39. Is Everybody Cheating These Days?
38. What Does It Mean to Be a “Good” Man?
37. How Do You Know if People Don’t Like You?
36. Which Matters More, a First or Last Impression?
35. Does Psychotherapy Actually Work?
34. Are Humans Smarter or Stupider Than We Used to Be?
33. Is Optimism a Luxury Good?
32. Which Gets You Further: Talent or Effort?
31. How Much Do Your Friends Affect Your Future?
30. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?
29. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Quit?
28. Why Do We Hoard?
27. How Should You Ask for Forgiveness?
26. Do Checklists Make People Stupid?
25. Is Hedonism Better Than Self-Control?
24. Why Do We Forget So Much of What We’ve Read?
23. Is It Wrong to Crave Praise?
22. Why Do We Buy Things We’ll Never Use?
21. How Can You Identify Hidden Talent? With Eric Schmidt.
Presenting “Smart Girl Dumb Questions”
20. Should We Separate the Art From the Artist?
19. Is There Such a Thing as Good Estrangement?
18. How Do You Raise a “Likable” Kid?
17. How Can We Get More Virtue and Less ‘Virtue Signaling’?
16. What’s the Downside to Being Goal-Oriented?
15. How Much of Your Life Do You Actually Control?
14. Are You a Maximizer or a Satisficer?
13. How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People?
12. Does “As If” Thinking Really Work?
11. Are Ambitious People Inherently Selfish?
10. Why Are Stories Stickier Than Statistics?
9. Why Is It So Hard to Be Alone With Our Thoughts?
8. Wouldn’t It Be Better to Hear Your Eulogy Before You’re Dead?
7. How Do You Handle Criticism?
6. Is Incompetence a Form of Dishonesty?
5. What Do Tom Sawyer and the Founder of Duolingo Have in Common?
4. Does All Creativity Come From Pain?

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