How to lose well — and why it matters
Life Kit
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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is NPR's life kit. |
| 0:02.6 | And this is the sound of losing. |
| 0:06.0 | You can't be serious, man. |
| 0:08.0 | You cannot be serious! |
| 0:10.0 | That ball was on the line! |
| 0:12.0 | It's not the first time I've landed in Foco! |
| 0:14.0 | At the 11-yard line and who has the football? |
| 0:17.0 | And the honor of shooting the technicals. |
| 0:19.0 | Look at here, look at here. |
| 0:21.0 | Bobby and I just threw his chair here across the free throw line. |
| 0:26.0 | We've all been there. |
| 0:28.0 | Maybe not to Wimbledon or to the Superdome or even in organized sports of any kind. |
| 0:33.0 | But competition, loss, rejection, failing, falling, flailing, it's all a part of life. |
| 0:41.0 | It's unavoidable, right? |
| 0:42.0 | This is an experience that is as universal as it gets. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Andy Tegel, one of the producers of this show, and that was Sam Weinman, an editor at Golf Digest, |
| 0:51.0 | an author of the book, Win at Losing. |
| 0:54.0 | How our biggest setbacks can lead to our greatest gains. |
| 0:58.0 | Another universal? |
| 0:59.0 | No one likes to lose, especially when it comes to things they care deeply about. |
| 1:04.0 | And why would we? |
| 1:06.0 | Losing hurts. |
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