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

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

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.'

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0:33.8	No pressure.
0:35.0	Just help.
0:35.9	But for now, just relax.
0:37.8	I'm actually. Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. I'm Ashley Milntite.
0:56.4	In this episode, we look at society's obsession with winning. It takes over most aspects of life
1:03.2	from sport to school to the workplace. My guest is a three-time Olympian. The first two were very
1:10.6	much dominated by this macho narrative about who's the winner.
1:15.8	And, you know, if you lose, you've got to show how much you hate losing because that's what winners do.
1:20.9	Rethinking what winning means.
1:23.6	Coming up on the broad experience.
1:34.3	Music Coming up on the Broad Experience. It was the summer of 2004.
1:37.7	British Roa Kath Bishop was in her early 30s, competing at her third Olympic Games in Athens,
1:43.2	alongside her crewmate, Catherine Granger.
1:46.4	During the final race, the two of them powered through the water, stroke after stroke,
1:51.8	one of six pairs of female rowers.
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