Sports and Competition

Permission to Play Hard

What can sports teach us about competing with other people?

Competition can bring out the best in people, and sometimes the worst. Guests dig into the spoken and unspoken agreements that make playing hard possible, and where the line falls between intensity and going too far. Each Season Two episode brings a small group of people with different lived experiences to one table in Amesbury to explore this question over an unscripted, hours-long conversation.

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A microphone at the table inside The Unscripted Room, with the glowing Unscripted Room sign against the brick behind

One table. Four seats.

Bring the experience behind your answer.

You do not need a polished point of view. The room is interested in what you have lived, what shaped you, and what you are still working out.

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