I'm curious what valuable dozer don'ts you have learned over your years of being an athlete and coaching athletics as it applies to failure and losing. I mean, we did a whole episode about losing. What you hear from them is that really the stuff that gives you satisfaction is not whether you win or lose. It's so easy to fall into cliches here. But how you play the game or all those other things around a team dynamic.
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