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061 - The Difference Between Greatness and Fake Greatness

Aug 01, 202446 min
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Nike recently released an ad for the Olympics whose message is that you have to be a "bad person"—in the ad's telling, a competitor who lacks empathy, compassion, and respect—to be a winner. So Brad, Steve, and Clay debate: Is this true? Is it possible to be a ruthless competitor and still be a good person? What separates true greatness from pseudo-greatness? And what do we get wrong, culturally and societally, when it comes to winning in sport?


"Am I a Bad Person?" (Nike):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLergHG81c


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