Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter
Feb 22, 2023 · 34 min · 13 segments
This week on Body Stuff we’re excited to introduce TED’s newest podcast, Good Sport, hosted by veteran sports producer Jody Avirgan. What can sports teach us about life – and each other? Good Sport…
Jody AvirganHostNicole DetlingGuest
But talk to top athletes, and a lot of them will say that the mental side of the game is the real key to peak performance.

It's one of the things I've thought about most as an athlete, how to get my mind in the right place.

Athletes like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka have started really important conversations about how an athlete's life on and off the court connect.

What we're talking about in this episode is the mental part of competition, that invisible force that I think shapes every game, every race, every match, and a lot of times separates the winner from the loser.

But talk to top athletes, and a lot of them will say that the mental side of the game is the real key to peak performance.

It's one of the things I've thought about most as an athlete, how to get my mind in the right place.

Athletes like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka have started really important conversations about how an athlete's life on and off the court connect.

What we're talking about in this episode is the mental part of competition, that invisible force that I think shapes every game, every race, every match, and a lot of times separates the winner from the loser.
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