Professor Ian Robertson

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TED Talks Daily · Sunday Pick: How to Survive a Losing Team | Good Sport · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

Oh, this is terrible.

This is the end.

You know, these big kind of thoughts that are really motivationally debilitating.

Actually, the human brain finds it much easier to learn from winning than it does to learn from losing.

When you lose, there's usually a more limited set of reasons for why you lose.

Losing is potentially a much better teaching signal.

If you can get your mind away from the anxiety and the big debilitating thoughts, to analyze them, they're actually a fantastic tutorial for you to actually try and correct these things.

If you treat it as an opportunity for learning, then you've really potentially got an advantage for your future development of your skills and performance.

It's possible to have cultures where people don't feel overly protective of their egos, where their ego is not a major factor.

But there are individualistic cultures like America and Western Europe.

Ego is important.

Every single person is a brand and everyone's trying to protect their brand.

And so if your team suffers a string of defeats,

that's threatening to your individual ego, your individual brand.

And so you're going to try and engage in all sorts of activities to try and protect your good opinion of yourself.

If you're an individual tennis player or golfer, for instance, usually that has to be you sorting things out in your own head.

But if you're part of a team, so easy for you to protect your threatened ego.

by attributing it to other people's behavior in the team, other people's failures.

And that, of course, is hugely corrosive of team bonding and therefore team confidence.

Collective confidence is the belief that we, as a group, can do something.

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