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The Right Call What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life

Sally Jenkins

An NPR best book of the year * Sportswriter Sally Jenkins has spent her entire adult life observing and writing about great coaches and athletes. With her engaging and expert prose, she has helped shape the way we view these talented sports icons. But somewhere along the line, she realized, they ha...

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It explored how the methods of top athletes, such as Peyton Manning, can be applied to work and life, emphasizing that champions are made, not born, through hard work and intentionality.

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A theme of your book, and other people have made the same point, but I wonder how you explain this. A theme of your book is that champions are made not born.

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It explored how the methods of top athletes, such as Peyton Manning, can be applied to work and life, emphasizing that champions are made, not born, through hard work and intentionality.

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A theme of your book, and other people have made the same point, but I wonder how you explain this. A theme of your book is that champions are made not born.

What I really wanted to do with the book was explain to people what the method is behind what looks like inspiration or intuition.

What sports teach us about work and life

Really, I think one of the reasons I wanted to write the book was because I've known for years now, it's been a very nagging thought that there's something much deeper going on on the field than just physical greatness.

The superstars are very clear in their methods. That's one reason why I focused on them because they actually are really, really intentional and they explain their methods better than most people.

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