Way to turn the tables on me, Steven.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Steven Dubner.
And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
Today on the show, what's the value of complaining?
Ugh, God, I can't believe we have to listen to more talking heads at the end of this podcast.
Also, what do you mean when you say you don't have time?
I'm just in a very socially graceful but also self-serving way, giving somebody the brush off.
Angela, question for you today.
It's actually not a question.
It's a command.
No stupid commands.
Tell me one thing that you personally complain about that you probably shouldn't.
This is assuming that there are legitimate complaints, of course.
I mean,
I complain a lot about my 19-year-old daughter leaving coffee cups on the white counter and empty Splenda packets everywhere.
I can vouch for the volume of your complaints about that.
It's annoying to me and recently actually she pointed out to me that this was an irrational Pet peeve maybe all pet peeves are irrational that the coffee cup wasn't doing any harm Nor was the Splenda except to me psychically so it's interesting when you began that rant and you said how bothersome it was I thought you were talking about how bothersome your complaining was that you didn't want to complain Oh,
but you mean the thing that she does really bothers you and therefore you complain so the question I asked is what's something you complain about that you probably shouldn't are you saying You shouldn't complain about that
because A,