The Story of Simone Biles: When Do You Push Through or Take A Time-Out?
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest news stories on the planet involves gymnast Simone Biles stepping back from competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. How does one navigate when to accelerate through challenging times or when to hit the brakes? Positive Psychology Expert Rob Mack illuminates this fundamental question related to the news and our life, offering key takeaways on true resilience, and fine tuning your life's purpose (during a stressful pandemic and beyond).
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| 1:03.0 | Hello from the Heartland. |
| 1:04.5 | My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News, news when it matters and why it matters. |
| 1:13.3 | Our Smarter series features unique people who help us think and live smarter. Today we're going to talk about one of the biggest |
| 1:24.6 | stories really on the planet this week. And that is the story of the greatest |
| 1:29.3 | gymnast in the world, Simone Biles, suddenly withdrawing from Olympic competition, at least for now. |
| 1:35.8 | We still have some events coming up that she could compete in. We're speaking on Friday morning |
| 1:40.1 | at the end of a long week, by the way. So it gives you an idea of where we are in the news cycle. |
| 1:50.2 | And this is a really big story for so many reasons. It was totally unexpected. It's also a little bit confusing. We still don't have a lot of the really important facts. And quite frankly, |
| 1:57.0 | that's made me a little bit uncomfortable as a journalist. I'm always trying to figure out how to cover a story a little bit smarter than others. And I was having trouble really |
| 2:07.4 | understanding what actually took place, what led to the events that were witnessing and covering. |
| 2:12.5 | And one of the things I like to do on Smarter News is look at a story and strip it down to some of the basic questions |
| 2:18.6 | that we're asking in that story. So we really understand what we're trying to get at when we're |
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