Sarah Lewis
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Sarah Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they were kind of blah.
Then the segment would be kind of blah.
There's actually a term for this, it's called gender bland.
What gets us to convert success into mastery?
This is a question I've long asked myself.
I think it comes when we start to value the gift of a near win.
I started to understand this when I went on one cold May day to watch a set of varsity archers, all women as fate would have it, at the northern tip of Manhattan at Columbia's Baker Athletic Complex.
I wanted to see what's called Archer's Paradox, the idea that in order to actually hit your target, you have to aim at something slightly skew from it.
I stood and watched as the coach drove up these women in this gray van, and they exited with this kind of relaxed focus.
I stood behind one archer as her coach stood in between us to maybe assess who might need support and watched her, and I didn't understand how even one was going to hit the ten ring.
the ten ring from the standard 75-yard distance, it looks as small as a matchstick tip held out at arm's length.
And this is while holding 50 pounds of draw weight on each shot.
She first hit a seven, I remember, and then a nine, and then two tens, and the next arrow didn't even hit the target.
And I saw that gave her more tenacity, and she went after it again and again.
For three hours, this went on.
At the end of the practice, one of the archers was so taxed that she laid out on the ground just starfished, her head looking up at the sky, trying to find what T.S.
Eliot might call that still point of the turning world.
It's so rare in American culture, there's so little that's vocational about it anymore, to look at what doggedness looks like with this level of exactitude.
what it means to align your body posture for three hours in order to hit a target, pursuing a kind of excellence in obscurity.
But I stayed because I realized I was witnessing what's so rare to glimpse that difference between success and mastery.
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