Episode 186: Our Obsession with Winning (and how to re-think)

The culture of winning pervades our lives. From sport to the classroom to the workplace, we're supposed to 'kill it' or congratulated for 'crushing it.' But all that crushing can take a toll on the psyche, as Olympic athlete Cath Bishop can attest. Cath spent years training in her sport, rowing, and competed in three Olympic Games. When she left sport she thought she'd left the obsession with winning behind. Instead she found it was pretty much everywhere. In this episode we discuss what winning actually means if you want to achieve long-term success (which looks a lot different than what most people think of as 'success.') We talk about the gendered language around winning, and the young female sports stars who are rejecting the winning narrative. Cath is the author of 'The Long Win: the search for a better way to succeed.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 186: Our Obsession with Winning (and how to re-think) is an episode from The Broad Experience by The Broad Experience.

This episode is 23:50 long.

This episode was published on Dec 17, 2021.

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