Olympic coaches on the importance of working in a healthy environment

20 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video (created/uploaded by Guy Kawasaki) in which two speakers—identified in the transcript as Speaker A and Speaker B—discuss the value of maintaining a healthy competitive environment. They use metaphors like "leave everything in the ocean/on the stage/strip" to mean keeping competition focused on performance rather than personal conflict, and argue that such an environment spurs individuals to improve ("One better, and I want to do one better").

Leave everything in the ocean. That's what we say. Battle it out. Just leave it on the stage.
Leave everything on the strip.
Yeah. It's not personal. We're there to play the game. We dare to win. And just leave everything in the ocean or on the stage. I mean, it's easy to say, but to create the healthy competitive environment for me is very important. You do better. One better, and I want to do one better.
Healthy working environment. Healthy competitive, healthy working. Whether it's at a company, it's a team sport, anything meeting, working in a healthy situation, a healthy environment, it's key.