Martina Navratilova on Shaping Herself (Live at Mason)
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🗓️ 28 March 2018
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Summary
Martina Navratilova is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. No one has won more matches than her thanks to an astonishing 87 percent win rate in a long and dominant career.
In their conversation, she and Tyler cover her illustrious tennis career, her experience defecting from Czechoslovakia and later becoming a dual citizen, the wage gap in tennis competition and commentary, gender stereotypes in sports, her work regimen and training schedule, technological progress in tennis, her need for speed, journaling and constant self-improvement, some of her most shocking realizations about American life, the best way to see East Africa, her struggle to get her children to put the dishes in the dishwasher, and more.
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Recorded March 19th, 2018
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| 0:34.3 | Martina, we are greatly honored to have you here today. |
| 0:37.7 | You have won Wimbleton nine times, I believe. |
| 0:41.3 | And more astonishing yet, there are, I believe, 80 different events where you have won both |
| 0:45.3 | the singles and the doubles of the same event. |
| 0:48.3 | Yes. |
| 0:51.4 | 80, 80 times, they just give a million dollar bonus last week in India and |
| 0:55.5 | also if a player could win both singles and doubles. |
| 0:57.8 | They didn't do that in my day, unfortunately. |
| 1:00.7 | If we were to take your achievements, and rather than framing them as sports |
| 1:04.1 | achievements, an athletic, which of course they were, but to think of them in |
| 1:07.3 | terms of both education, self-education, and management, how would you |
| 1:12.0 | describe the approach that took you, you know, by the early 80s to really being |
| 1:16.1 | a completely dominant player. |
| 1:17.5 | You were a contender, and then you became completely dominant, say, by 1981. |
| 1:21.5 | How did you do that? |
| 1:22.6 | And what can you teach us about that process? |
| 1:24.3 | Well, I didn't graduate from high school, so I'm having a hard time understanding your |
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