2549: Small Games, Big Lessons

The Olympics just finished, and Super Bowl was a success. 

But the most important athletic moment for me most recently didn’t happen on a professional field, it happened on a small flag football field, watching my son process disappointment after a bad call.

This episode is about something far more important than winning or losing:
how quickly you return to neutral.

We unpack a powerful stat about Roger Federer, one of the greatest athletes of all time, who won roughly 80% of his matches while winning only about 54% of his points. The lesson? Great performers don’t avoid losses. They don’t carry them.

No single play, good or bad, defines you.
What matters is what you do next.

This is an episode about resilience, emotional processing, and the quiet discipline of getting back in the game.

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