How to Be a Better Human Podcast

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Jody Avergan grew up in Costa Rica and now he lives in Brooklyn. What about sports strikes you as universal in your experience? There's some meaningful changes between cultures when it relates to sports. How to Be a Better Human is brought to you on the Ted side by Anna Feelin, Whitney Pennington-Rogers and Jimmy Gutierrez. This episode was fact-checked by Julia Dickerson and Erica Yoon of Source Citations.

When it comes to sports, it might seem like there are two kinds of people. Those who are religious about their love for the game and those who only see Super Bowl Sunday as a vessel for an epic halftime concert – if they think about it at all. Jody Avirgan argues this is a false binary. In Good Sport, his new show from the TED Audio Collective, Jody makes the case that sports are as good a lens as any to understand the world – regardless of whether you are an athlete, a fan or a begrudging bystander. In this episode, Jody shares the lessons he’s learned from playing and reporting on sports at the highest levels, and makes a compelling case that sports can help us uncover the amazing emotions that make us better humans. You can listen to Good Sport wherever you are listening to this. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts