Why winning doesn't always equal success | Valorie Kondos Field

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Valorie Kondos Field knows a lot about winning. As the longtime coach of the UCLA women's gymnastics team, she won championship after championship and has been widely acclaimed for her leadership. In this inspiring, brutally honest and, at times, gut-wrenching talk, she shares the secret to her success. Hint: it has nothing to do with "winning."

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh. You're listening to TED Talks Daily. We're so socialized to prize winning, right?
0:09.9	Win at all costs in politics and business, often in culture. We applaud winners, frown upon losers.
0:16.3	But in today's archive talk from TED Women 2019, gymnastics coach Valerie Condos Field, shines a light on the shadow side of winning.
0:24.5	The damage that winning can cause and how success and winning are not the same thing.
0:32.9	Okay, I have a question for all of us.
0:35.4	You ready?
0:37.3	Is all winning success?
0:41.0	Oh.
0:44.1	Oh, okay.
0:46.5	I am the recently retired head coach
0:49.1	of the UCLA women's gymnastics team,
0:52.1	a position that I held for 29 years.
0:55.0	Thank you.
0:57.0	And during my tenure, I experienced a lot of winning.
1:01.0	I led our team to seven national championships.
1:04.0	I was inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame.
1:07.0	And I was even voted the coach of the century by the Pact 12 conference.
1:14.2	Winning is really, really, like, really, really, really fun.
1:22.0	But I am here to share my insight. Winning does not always equal success.
1:30.4	All across America and around the world,
1:40.3	we have a crisis in the win-at-all-cost cultures that we have created. In our schools, in our businesses, in politics, winning at all costs has become acceptable.
1:47.2	As a society,
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