Daniel Coyle

And so the cost of that kind of pressure was immediately apparent to all of Norwich.

And as partly as a result, they moved into this other space and it redefined the norms with which they treat each other and they support each other.

And there's a million tiny examples that I talk about in the book, but

one of them is when there's a big meet sometimes the whole town will go and watch the kids compete say at placid or somewhere else and all the other top athletes are lucky they're with from other places they they're with their team and their coach and their masseuse or whatever and the people from norwich are with all the local folks and it's just a sense of again community we think of community as a noun but i think what norwich helps teach us is that it's actually a verb

It's a set of actions of noticing someone, of looking for where the need is and of supporting them in some way.

It makes me think of one more quick example.

There was a young snowboarder who needed money to travel and her parents, her name was Hannah Carney.

Her parents, I think she was about 14, said, well, we don't have any money.

Why don't you go around town and see if you can get money?

any businesses to sponsor you and so hannah wrote up a little resume for herself started going door to businesses and sure enough somebody agreed to sponsor her and the condition was just one condition i'd love to see your grades every year i don't care how you do in the meets i don't care how you do in your sports life but i want to see your grades i want to make sure you keep up your grades so that expect that kind of you know everyone is playing a role of an uncle a caring uncle as karen kraus who wrote the book on norwich put it

everywhere it's normal to care about your kids but in norwich you care about other people's kids more than you care as much as you care about your own kids so it's just it's simple but i think what the story kind of illustrates is that it's those kinds of ecosystems as with the seals they're not fixed they depend on this living participation and these sets of norms that people create together so that they can behave in this way

yeah yeah and she's focused if i remember right largely on what's happening outside the mine as they come together to build this incredible talk about a space shot right they're going 2 000 feet into the granite to rescue these people most of us remember the big outlines of the story

33, 33 miners.

There's a cave at San Jose mine.

There's 100 million tons of rock on them.

The hope for escape is pretty minimal at first because nobody's ever escaped from that far down before.

And they're trapped in what's called a refugio, a little room, which had a cabinet with some old cans of tuna and some cookies and some sour milk.

And for 16 days, they were there in the dark.

Then when they're finally contacted, they're thinking what typically happens in these things is there's severe mental health risks.

Juries get infected.