Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson on What Running Can Teach Us
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I'm Caleb Bissinger. This is the next big idea. Today on the show I'm chatting with Nick Thompson. He's the CEO of The Atlantic, and he's just published a new memoir. It's called The Running Ground.
It's about his lifelong obsession with running. It's a story about being able to push back against these forces in life that should make you slower, that do make you older, but to go in the other direction. His relationship with his brilliant, troubled father. Part of the reason why I want to understand my father is to not be him. And a shocking diagnosis.
I had like a lot of knee pain and I was like, well, if I see my doctor, he'll tell me I can't run the marathon. So I delay the appointment until right after the race and go and see him. And forget about the knee pain. Who cares? Like, what's this?
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