10/08/2015
As we forge toward athletic goals it’s important to put things in perspective. In this riveting TedTalk, investigative journalist David Epstein delves into what exactly has led to the astonishing improvements in athletic performance over the years. Are pro-athletes really as amazing as we think they are? Or have technology, democratization and imagination of the sports world led to incredible feats of the human body?
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_better_stronger
When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in s…