Hey everyone, it's Pablo here.

Today we're going to re-air an episode about sports science with Dave Epstein that we love.

But we'll be back tomorrow with something all new for you.

In the meantime, here is Dave and his super smart insights on the greatest athletes of all time.

Enjoy.

Dave, you're kind of a myth buster in sports,

meaning that while the rest of us are busy blindly falling in love with athlete's stories,

you get into their actual history and their habits,

and you find out what's really behind their success in this

industry. And then you go around the world, basically, correcting all of those wrong assumptions.

So I just want to hear about the time none other than Serena Williams showed up at one of your

talks.

Yeah, so basically I was giving a talk to a small group, and I was going to talk in part about

the research that shows that athletes who go on to become elite do not follow the so-called

$10,000 rule, right? That in fact, they tend to have wide variety of sports and physical

activities. David Epstein is a best-selling author, sought after speaker, and host of the Slade

podcast, How To.

It can be martial arts, dance, rock climbing, whatever. They learn these sort of broad

general skills, learn about their interests and abilities and delay specializing.

And right, I'm going to marshal all this scientific data and everything.

And then I see Serena sits down in the second row and I'm like, oh my God, like no amount of scientific data is going to save me if after this talk she stands up and says,

you're an idiot, that's not how it works at all, right?

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