The Problem with All-Stars
TED Talks Daily
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🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Butler Bulldogs have a habit of shocking college basketball fans by beating top teams with far more talent. How do they do it? Adam Grant joins the team to talk about why stars are overrated, role players are underrated, and humility can go hand in hand with confidence. Also featuring “Moneyball” author Michael Lewis and Brad Stevens, coach of the Boston Celtics. This episode is brought to you by JPMorgan Chase & Co, Accenture, Bonobos and Warby Parker. We’re doing a listener survey about WorkLife with Adam Grant! We’d really appreciate a few minutes of your time to help us improve the show: surveynerds.com/worklife
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| 0:00.0 | This is a special edition of TED Talks Daily featuring our newest podcast, Work Life with Adam Grant. |
| 0:06.1 | Adam talks to Moneyball author Michael Lewis and Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens to investigate |
| 0:12.0 | why all-star athletes are overrated and the secret to an effective team dynamic. |
| 0:17.3 | After the episode, subscribe to Work Life with Adam Grant and check out the entire |
| 0:22.4 | first season of Work Life wherever you get your podcasts. I can't really ever remember time |
| 0:30.0 | when I didn't have some sort of ball in my hand. This is Shane Battier. Growing up, he was a standout |
| 0:35.8 | athlete. My first love growing up was baseball. I thought I was going to be a major league pitcher. |
| 0:41.3 | And a funny thing happened. When I was in sixth grade, I was six feet tall. |
| 0:45.8 | And in seventh grade, I was six foot four. And in eighth grade, I was six foot eight. |
| 0:51.1 | So that's when I switched and became a basketball guy first. |
| 0:55.4 | Shane was the national basketball player of the year in high school and again in college. |
| 1:00.2 | He was so good that he was drafted into the NBA. But when he got to the pros, he quickly |
| 1:05.4 | discovered that it was a whole new league. Everyone around him was way more talented. At that level, he didn't have the |
| 1:12.2 | raw physical ability to be a star. He heard coaches and players dismissing him. |
| 1:16.9 | And people looked at my limitations and said, oh, Badiye is not athletic. And he doesn't run |
| 1:21.3 | pick and roll. And he can't really dribble. |
| 1:24.4 | We've all been in that position, where our teammates have more talent than we do. |
| 1:29.2 | But Shane found a way to overcome it. |
| 1:31.6 | He became a key contributor to two NBA championship teams. |
| 1:34.9 | And I want to know how that happens. |
| 1:37.5 | How do you make your team better when you're not the biggest star? |
| 1:47.8 | I'm Adam Grant, and this is Work Life, my podcast with Ted. |
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