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#87 What Wrestling Teaches You In Business | Tom Ryan

#87 What Wrestling Teaches You In Business | Tom Ryan11. Aug.1 Std. 17 Min.

Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan,  the man who brought the Buckeyes their first national title, sat down with me and hit me with a claim I couldn't shake: hand him almost any seventh grader, and if that kid fully commits, he'll be winning 75% of the time by his senior year. We got into the system behind that, from the "marbles in a jar" principle to walking on at Iowa when Dan Gable didn't even know his name. But the part that stayed with me was how a man nothing in wrestling could break found his way through the hardest loss a parent can face, and the "chosen suffering" philosophy that carried him. 

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro of Show

01:23 - Meeting at Iowa wrestling camp, 1983