“I think trust is the single most important thing in rowing. You really do become part of something larger than yourself. Every time you take a stroke you are counting on everybody else in the boat to be putting his whole weight, full strength into that stroke. That is only going to happen if every man in that boat trusts the others at a very fundamental level.”
That monologue comes from the narrator in the documentary The Boys in the Boat, which tells the story of the University of Washington crew as they were preparing for their nail-biting win in the Olympics in Berlin in 1936.
This description of the importance of trust, unbounded trust, shared trust describes the magic potion of every great team effort I have ever experienced.
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