Daniel Coyle
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Mar
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there's something in the water as we like to say there's something in the water but what's in the water in norwich is and has been is this incredible clarity about connection and our possibilities and obligations for helping one another out in norwich there was a woman karen krauss who wrote an excellent book about it and the way she described it was the norwich daisy chain which is everyone sees every other kid in norwich as almost an extension of their own kids
You treat them the same and you hope for them the same and you're not competing and you're trying to lift each other up.
And when you scroll back history a little bit, why are they this way here and not somewhere else?
Well, it turns out that in Norwich in the 60s, they got a vivid lesson on how not to parent.
There was a tiger parent, the perfect tiger parent back in the 60s, raised two Olympic skiers and made both of them miserable in the process.
He would put ankle weights around their ankles and send them on pre-dawn runs, and he controlled every aspect of their diet and their training.
And he...
absolutely taught and both girls of course ended up succeeding and yet spiraling in their personal lives as well.
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
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