Stephen Dubner: How big is your moral circle? Just me. Angela Duckworth: Stephen, we have an email from an Irene Lee that I'm going to read to you. She says she understands the impulse to feel helpless and overwhelmed by negativity. But if you look at global measures of human prosperity versus human suffering over the last few hundred years, the data are just overwhelmingly positive.
Are things as dire as they seem? How big is your moral circle? And should Angela spend time with her kids or answer her emails?