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Stephen J. Dubner is the co-author, with Steven D. Levitt, of Freakonomics. Their latest book, When to Rob a Bank, came out last week.\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve abandoned more books than I\u2019ve written, which I\u2019m happy about. I\u2019m very pro-quitting. We get preached this idea that if you quit something, if you don\u2019t see something through to completion then you\u2019re a loser, you\u2019re a failure. I just think that\u2019s a crazy way to look at things. But it\u2019s also easy to overlook opportunity costs. Like, what could I be doing instead?\u201d\n\nThanks to this week's sponsors: TinyLetter, HP Matter, The Great Courses, and Aspiration.\n\nShow Notes:\nstephenjdubner.com\nDubner on Longform\n[2:00] "The Desert Blues" (Joshua Hammer \u2022 The Atavist Magazine \u2022 May 2015)\n[3:00] When to Rob a Bank (with Steven D. Levitt \u2022 William Morrow \u2022 May 2015)\n[11:00] "When Numbers Solve a Mystery" (Steven Landsburg \u2022 The Wall Street Journal \u2022 Apr 2005)\n[13:00] "Do Parents Matter?" (with Steven D. Levitt \u2022 USA Today \u2022 May 2005)\n[13:00] "The Probability That a Real-Estate Agent Is Cheating You (and Other Riddles of Modern Life)" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Aug 2003)\n[16:00] "Steven the Good" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Feb 1999)\n[16:00] Choosing My Religion: A Memoir of a Family Beyond Belief (Harper Perennial \u2022 2006)\n[25:00] Freakonomics: The Movie (Magnolia Pictures \u2022 2010)\n[42:00] Freakonomics Radio\n[43:00] "I'm Stephen Dubner, Co-Author of Freakonomics, and This Is How I Work" (Lifehacker \u2022 Sep 2014)\n[44:00] "Tell Me Something I Don\u2019t Know: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast" (Freakonomics \u2022 Oct 2014)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices