Soccer star Abby Wambach on being good enough

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Abby Wambach is one of soccer’s all-time greats. But in 2015, after she retired with two Olympic medals, a FIFA World Cup Championship, and six U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year awards under her belt, she wasn’t sure what would be next. In this jam-packed conversation, Abby shares how she rethought her life and work. She and Adam discuss the challenges with maintaining motivation, what makes teams great, and how to know when you’ve accomplished enough. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	Hey there, my name is Jody Afrigan and I'm the host of a new podcast from Ted called Good
0:11.9	Sport.
0:12.9	I've learned a ton of life lessons from playing sports, from watching sports, and from
0:17.0	covering sports in my career as a journalist.
0:19.4	I've also pulled my hamstring like 300 times but that's another story.
0:23.4	In every episode of Good Sport, I'm digging into a big question from the world of sports
0:27.9	that feels like it has something larger to teach us.
0:31.2	Like what's the secret of a talent hotbed?
0:34.0	Those places that seem to produce star athlete after star athlete.
0:38.8	Or what I'll do with my time now that I'm aging out of my sport.
0:41.8	I'm not taking up golfing, I'll tell you that, but I am trying to find the next day.
0:46.2	Ultimately, this show is my argument to you that we can use sports as a lens to understand
0:51.8	something bigger about the world around us and ourselves.
0:56.6	Like around after this episode for a taste of the new season or listen right now, you
1:00.7	can find Good Sport wherever you get your podcasts.
1:04.0	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
1:08.9	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Take.
1:13.0	I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
1:16.7	people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
1:23.7	My guest today is soccer superstar Abby Wambok.
1:26.8	She's widely regarded as one of the greatest, possibly the greatest of all time.
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