Brad Gilbert and the Problem with Perfection

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Grace Cohen-Chen

Society & Culture

4.6 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Like all of us, athletes fail often. Renowned tennis coach Brad Gilbert knows that well, and has spent decades analyzing weaknesses as a way to develop strengths. As a player, he rose to the rank of #4 in the world, then began coaching stars like Andy Roddick, Andy Murray, and, most recently, Coco Gauff. He even trained Zendaya for the movie Challengers. I loved hearing how the man Andre Agassi called “the greatest coach of all time” gets even more out of the best players in the game. Follow me on Instagram at @davidduchovny. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. And if you want to continue the conversation with other listeners, join the My Lemonada community at https://lemonadamedia.com/mylemonada/ For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's morning in New York.
0:02.8	Oh, God.
0:06.2	Hey, everybody.
0:07.3	I'm Mandy Patinkin.
0:08.7	And I'm Catherine Grady.
0:09.8	And we have a new podcast.
0:11.7	It's called Don't Listen to Us.
0:14.1	Many of you've asked for our advice.
0:16.1	Tell me, what is wrong with you people?
0:19.2	Don't listen to us.
0:20.3	Our Take It or Leave a Advice show every Wednesday out now.
0:24.7	A Lemonada Media Original.
0:30.1	I had a great coach, Coach Burns.
0:33.9	He didn't have a first name, Larry.
0:35.8	I only knew that later.
0:56.2	His first name was Coach. And I mentioned it later in the podcast that he told me how to care. And the story that I'm thinking of was, you know, we wanted to win. And we were playing our arch rivals. And I guess we were ahead, and we just kind of blew it, and we lost,
0:58.2	and we were in the locker and waiting for coach to come in because we always had the wrap-up afterwards.
1:01.5	And it's going to sound totally cliche, and I guess it is.
1:06.3	But he came in, and just the look on his face,
1:09.9	you could tell he'd gone through it.
1:11.9	You know, like he, he cared.
1:15.3	He didn't care that this was a stupid high school game.
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