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Rory Sutherland explores Fortitude

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

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Is There a Super-Performing Sportsperson?

I was really struck by the degree of misdirection that we often end up with sporting narratives. We see someone who's got a tortured childhood and we think there's a teachable lesson from it. I wanted to address it specifically, you know. And my view is, firstly, it's a lot more complicated than that. If we're not careful, we can end up going down a cul-de-sac of misdirection. You could very easily see a book that propagates this article that there is something super-powered that is generated from a moment of trauma.

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