051 - Does Being a Good Person Make You a Worse Competitor?
excellence, actually · The Growth Equation LLC
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Show Notes
Steve, Brad, and Clay discuss a question posed by the writer and runner Sabrina Little in a recent article (link below) from Aeon titled "Performance-Enhancing Vices:" How do the personality traits that make for better competitors impact moral character? Is it possible that things like envy, selfishness, and pride—traits we'd likely label as "vices"—make us more competitive? Does good character hurt our performance? Using contemporary examples and drawing on their own experiences coaching, competing, and working with elite athletes, the guys explore the relationship between athletic performance and moral character. When does selfishness help and when does it hurt? Do you have to singularly obsessed to be great? How should we think about balancing life with ambitious goals?
"Performance-Enhancing Vices" by Sabrina Little (Aeon):
https://aeon.co/essays/does-it-take-a-bad-person-to-be-a-good-athlete
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