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Special guest interviews hosted by Mark Sisson in conversations with Primal Blueprint authors and other health and fitness experts.

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And now, here's your host, Brad Kearns.

Hi, listeners, and welcome to part two of my interview with Ashley Merriman, co-author of Nurture Shock and Top Dog.

Of course, I'm really hoping that you listen to Part 1,

where we became acquainted with Ashley's cutting edge work on parenting and competition,

but even if you missed that episode, you can jump right into this show without penalty

and obtain some awesome and memorable insights on the topic of competition. What's great about

the work of Ashley and her co-author, Poe Bronson,

is that they are taking some of the most interesting and compelling science out of the laboratory

or the academic setting and into popular culture with practical applications for us. So, as I

mentioned briefly in part one, competition brings out the best in us only when it's

a close race and when you have a taste or a hope for some success.

If you're a big fish in a small pond and get thrown into a big pond, it can have the

opposite of the envisioned effect, because a big fish is used to being a big fish and he can easily

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