Sarah Lewis
speaker
58 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Sarah Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
In 1988, she won the gold in the heptathlon and set a record of 7,291 points, a score that no athlete has come very close to since.
We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.
I stand here thinking and wondering about all the different ways that we might even manufacture a near win in this room.
How your lives might play this out.
Because I think on some gut level we do know this.
The deliberate incomplete is inbuilt into creation myths.
In Navajo culture, some craftsmen and women would deliberately put an imperfection in textiles and ceramics.
It's what's called a spirit line, a deliberate flaw in the pattern to give the weaver or maker a way out, but also a reason to continue making work.
Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end.
They're masters because they realize that there isn't one.
Now, it occurred to me, as I thought about this, why the archery coach told me at the end of that practice, out of earshot of his archers, that he and his colleagues never feel they can do enough for their team, never feel there are enough visualization techniques and posture drills to help them overcome those constant near-wins.
It didn't sound like a complaint exactly, but just a way to let me know, kind of tender admission, to remind me that he knew he was giving himself over to a gracious, unfinished path that always required more.
We build out of the unfinished idea, even if that idea is our former self.
This is the dynamic of mastery.
Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain more than you ever dreamed you could.
Even if we created utopias, I believe we would still have the incomplete.
Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.
Thank you.
Showing 41–58 of 58 · page 3 of 3
← Previous