MICHELLE OBAMA: Absolutely. For my own sanity, I just have to turn it off. Because, you know, it just, I want to be happy in this job, because...
GAYLE KING, CBS News: Are you happy in this job?
MICHELLE OBAMA: I am so happy in this job. And I get a lot of good energy from the people that I meet. And that's how I measure what's happening. ... And I learned to do that on the campaign trail. I joked all the time that there would be two Iowas, right? There would be the Iowa experience that I would listen to on the news, which always had Barack losing, right? It was miserable. And nothing was gonna work. And then I'd go to Iowa and I felt a whole different experience, you know? People were open. They were, they were listening. They hadn't made decisions yet. They were curious. They were receptive. And I sort of thought, "Well, I'm living in this world. The real world." And measuring my responses to people by the responses they give to me. ... I do -- I've said this before about myself. I'm a 112 percenter. And I don't feel satisfied unless I'm putting in 112 percent into anything that I'm doing.
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