Looking To Athletes For Inspiration | 7 Principles For Life Success
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today we connect with Sally Jenkins, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life. She joins us to discuss her writing career – specifically outlining the events and people she encountered that brought her to where she is today.
As a sports columnist and feature writer for The Washington Post, Sally has spent a significant amount of time analyzing and interviewing coaches and athletes. This experience informed the writing of her latest book in an extraordinary way, and led to her realization that there are seven crucial principles behind success.
What could these principles be? Tune in to see for yourself…
Jump into the conversation now to discover:
- The primary focus of Sally's book.
- Why we tend to appreciate athletes for the wrong things.
- How athletes can teach us how to manage stress.
- The importance of practicing in the environment we're going to make decisions in.
- What happens to your body when you are under stress.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Forget frequently asked questions. |
| 0:02.0 | Common sense. |
| 0:03.0 | Common knowledge or Google. |
| 0:05.0 | How about advice from a real genius? |
| 0:07.0 | 95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license. |
| 0:11.0 | 5% go above and beyond. |
| 0:13.0 | They become very good at what they do, but only 0.1% are real geniuses. |
| 0:18.0 | Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you. |
| 0:22.4 | He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field. |
| 0:25.3 | Sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. |
| 0:28.9 | Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.5 | This is the Finding Genius podcast. |
| 0:33.2 | The Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:37.6 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding |
| 0:42.4 | Genius Foundation. |
| 0:43.8 | My guest is Sally Jenkins. |
| 0:45.6 | She's a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Right Call, What Sports Teach |
| 0:50.3 | Us About Work and Life. |
| 0:51.9 | It's the way to talk about her book and, you know, some of her columns in the Washington Post |
| 0:56.2 | where she's been a featured writer for more than 20 years. |
| 0:58.8 | So Sally, welcome and thank you. |
| 1:00.5 | Thank you for having me. |
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