Jody Avergan
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536 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 2 Aug
Jody Avergan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You peck one chicken into submission.
You start to think you can do it again.
Then scientists saw the winner effect with green sunfish, a really aggressive fish species.
They fight for territory by flaring their gills and biting each other until another fish backs down, as we all do.
The researchers set up an experiment where they would put pairs of green sunfish into a tank and watch their behavior.
Even against a same-sized opponent, how a fish performed in one match had a lot to do with how their previous matchups had gone.
And then, finally, researchers looked for the winner effect in humans and spotted it in men's tennis.
If a player won a tie-breaking set, they were more likely to win the next set.
Winning begets winning.
It's not perfect science.
Sunfish aren't pro athletes.
But you can see this phenomenon in sports.
And the experience of winning gives you confidence.
That, Ian Robertson says, is at the heart of the winner effect.
Confidence really is one of those magical things.
Fake it till you make it.
It really works.
You know, when I was chatting with Ian about the power of confidence, it helped me understand something that Nikki McRae told me, a story about that Washington Mystics team and where they found their confidence.
You don't always have to find it on the court.
That 3-27 season, it was the first in Mystics history, a new women's basketball franchise in a new city.
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