Why Shared Goals Can Bridge Divides
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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How can people from different groups get on the same page? Our guest, an educator and football coach, tries a strategy for building stronger, more inclusive teams.
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| 0:00.0 | We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it? |
| 0:05.0 | I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing. |
| 0:11.0 | Ultimately, it's a culture change. |
| 0:13.4 | NPR's Body Electric, a special interactive series investigating the relationship between our |
| 0:19.4 | tech and our bodies. |
| 0:21.2 | Listen in the Ted Radio Hour feed wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, so I've been coaching for about 19 years. |
| 0:30.0 | So I was a head football coach. |
| 0:32.0 | When it comes to like identifying common goals, especially as a coach, that's critically important, right? |
| 0:37.0 | So you want to win, right? |
| 0:38.0 | So that's one common goal. |
| 0:40.0 | I think where it gets a little tricky is how you do that right and not even just |
| 0:44.4 | in sports with anything when you're trying to convene different stakeholders |
| 0:49.1 | and different folks from different walks of life. There's always an activity that we do, we pass around a no-card |
| 0:56.0 | and have the guys write down, what's your individual goal for yourself |
| 0:59.0 | and what's your team goal? |
| 1:01.0 | And we have them share that out you know outside of just |
| 1:04.0 | winning you know what else do you want to accomplish with being a part of this team |
| 1:08.0 | and then get into the nuts and bolts of it that thing you know how do we get |
| 1:11.4 | there what do we need to do every |
| 1:12.7 | day you know how hard do we need to work how much time we need to spend in the weight |
| 1:16.2 | room what do you have to do academically so the guys great shot up the behavior |
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