On the Edge Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Choosing a Team

Levine talk about how she picked the ladies to participate in the first American Women’s Expedition to Everest.  She talks about some people were in it for the wrong reasons, asking how much they were getting paid and what private jet would they take.  They actually did not get paid at all to do this trip

She learned about the importance of ego from Coach K, a renowned coach for Team USA’s basketball team.

He talked about two types of egos

1. performance ego - which shows that they players has confidence in their abilities
2. team ego - players feel like they are privileged to be apart of this team

In the end, players are confident their own and the team’s abilities to be successful

“Just because you have a group of people doing the same thing at the same time with the same goal does not make you a team.  A group is only a team when every member of the group cares as much about helping the other members as they care about helping themselves.”  She compares this to a time to when she climbed Mount Everest without a team.  No one had any obligations to take others people’s opinions into consideration

because everyone was there for their own reasons. There was no common goal

Coach K said’ “If you try to win alone and you’re successful, you’re going to jump up to celebrate alone.”