From Greatness to Grit: Is Sports the New Religion? | Gotham Chopra
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gotham Chopra joins Chase Jarvis on the Chase Jarvis LIVE podcast to discuss the interconnection between culture, popular culture, history, creativity, entrepreneurship, and peak performance, with a specific focus on sports. Gotham, an award-winning filmmaker and the creator and co-founder of The Religion of Sports, shares his background growing up in Boston and how sports became a language for him. He talks about the shared suffering of Boston sports fans and how it bonded him with the culture of sports.
Gotham dives into how he merged his love for sports and storytelling, inspired by the launch of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. He shares his experiences working with iconic athletes like Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, LeBron James, and Serena Williams, and how he explores the convergence of sports and spirituality. The conversation touches on the deeper purpose that sports can bring to our lives and the lessons learned from failure and loss.
Some highlights we explore:
- The transformative power of sports and how it taps into human potential
- The importance of embracing the journey and learning from failures and losses
- The lessons learned from iconic athletes like Tom Brady and Serena Williams
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | the greatest hitters in the history of baseball fail seven out of ten times. |
| 0:05.3 | You know, Tom Brady always tells me, he's like, it's not the seven super bowls that I won. |
| 0:09.1 | It's the three Super Bowls that I lost from which I learned the most. |
| 0:12.6 | And that's a common theme you see with even the greatest. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm working with Serena Williams. |
| 0:17.4 | She's, you know, she went to 34 Grand Slam finals. You know, it's the 11 that she |
| 0:23.2 | lost that she thinks about the most, you know, and taught her the most. And she always says, |
| 0:28.2 | it wasn't for those 11, I wouldn't have won the 23. Hey, everybody, what's up? It's Chase. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to another episode of the show. You just heard from today's guest, Gotham Chopra. |
| 0:40.4 | Gotham is an award-winning filmmaker who sits at the forefront at the intersection of sports, science, and spirituality. |
| 0:47.9 | The sports part, he is a documentary filmmaker, film and television series, focused specifically on legendary athletes and |
| 0:56.5 | sports in general like Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Serena Williams, Alex Morgan, |
| 1:02.6 | Usain Bolt, the list is long. |
| 1:05.5 | He also, as I mentioned, sits at this intersection of all of that sports stuff, science, |
| 1:13.0 | where we talk about peak performance, |
| 1:19.6 | flow states and all that stuff, and spirituality. You may recognize his last name Chopra. Indeed, |
| 1:25.9 | his father is Deepak Chopra. So he was raised in a universe where this spirituality certainly played a very, very key theme in his life. It's not a |
| 1:28.1 | stretch there for to see how he has so elegantly combined these different attributes into an |
| 1:33.5 | amazing career as a storyteller through this lens of sports. He talks about sports being a language. |
| 1:40.9 | And we talk about it in today's episode, all that stuff. And we also talk about how to |
| 1:45.0 | extrapolate the best virtues of greatness, right? What are the attributes that we can employ that |
| 1:51.8 | the best athletes in the world are masters at? We talk about the things we can do, the things that we |
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