Wright Thompson On The Costs Of Greatness Throughout History
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🗓️ 3 June 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Wright Thompson about his work studying the convergence of sports and culture, the evolution of society in conjunction with people’s emotional regression, why history is less distant than we think it is, and more.
Wright Thompson is an author and journalist who covers the intersections of sports and culture. Thompson has written for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine on topics like auto racing, MMA, bullfighting and more. Thompson wrote The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business and recently released the New York Times bestselling Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last. Wright’s work can be found on his website www.wrightthompson.com, and on Instagram @wrightthompsonbooks.
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| 1:11.6 | Maybe the greatest living writer in sports certainly currently publishing |
| 1:17.0 | Living writer |
| 1:18.4 | It's got to be right Thompson. I've raved about his book |
| 1:23.2 | The cost of these dreams which is not really about sports, but it so much is about the pursuit of greatness and what it costs you |
| 1:31.6 | The kinds of individuals that are drawn to that |
| 1:36.0 | The cost of being drawn to that I have drawn so much from his work |
| 1:42.0 | You'll if you've read stillness is the key. I'm drawing on his Tiger Wood story |
| 1:46.5 | If you picked up the daily dad there's stuff in there from his story on Ted Williams and his daughter |
| 1:52.2 | There's stuff from Tiger Woods |
| 1:54.5 | And and a bunch of other examples actually from our last conversation |
| 1:58.5 | I had him on the podcast back a year or two ago a remote this one's in person who came out to the new daily Stoke studio |
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