Ben Crowe
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453 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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But he also got into the play state, you know, as the older he got.
We call it neoteny.
Neoteny means the older you get, the younger you become.
Neoteny, yeah.
It's a beautiful word.
It's, yeah, it basically primes us.
It's a gene that we have.
My father had this gene, right?
He was just a larrikin from Australia.
Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, in my opinion, has this gene, right?
That the older he becomes, the younger he gets in terms of his attitude.
And one of the reasons I dedicated that play chapter in the book to Nike and to Phil Knight is because I learned a lot of these lessons before.
A, through Phil and my relationship with him and Nike, but also through the athletes like Roger Federer.
But Steph Gilmore, yeah, she was probably the first athlete that I guess all the perspective shifts in the book
I applied them to Steph back in 2012.
She just won her third world title in a row.
Yeah, so, yeah, Stephanie Gilmore is the greatest surfer of all time.
She's eight-time world champion surfer.
And back in 2012, after just winning her third world surfing championship, she got viciously attacked by a drug addict out the front of her apartment.
randomly who was on ice and attacked her with a hammer and broke her skull and broke her arm and she sadly went off the tour and through her parents and through her sponsor family reached out to me and we started working together in 2013 and
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