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Allyson Felix on defeating disappointment and savoring success

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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The Advantage of Specializing Early On

There's some brand new evidence that world class athletes started their sport later, and they also were more likely to have sort of cross trained or sampled lots of different sports before they focus just on one. Ii feel like i didn't burn out by doing so many other sports and by, you know, finding my sport later on and not specializing early on. For me, starting in high school, everything was new to me,  and i'm having so much fun. So i think it depends. But i do, i have friends who started running when they were five years old, and by the time they got into college, it was just all too much. They had, you

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