72. If Everyone Hates Meetings, Why Do We Have So Many of Them?

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  Don't think too hard, Stephen.

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  Your forehead will fall off.

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  I'm Angela Duckworth.

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  I'm Stephen Dubner.

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  And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

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  Today on the show, if everyone hates meetings, why do we have so many of them?

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  What am I paying all these minions for anyway?

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  Also, why does modern adolescence last well into a person's 20s?

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  When you and I were in our 20s, they didn't have cars.

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  They didn't have oxygen even.

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  Stephen, here is an email we got from a John Binion in Baton Rouge.

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  Are you ready for it?

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