Episode 47 - Daniel Brown on the Paradoxes of Rowing

The Boys in the Boat is the simply fantastic story of the 1936 US Men's Rowing team at the Berlin Olympics.  Daniel Brown wrote the chronicle of those eight men and their coxswain, their adversity, and ultimate triumph by less than a second over the Italian and German boats is one for the ages.  

Brown describes rowing in today's quote, highlighting three paradoxes in descriptive and wonderful prose.  It is often in life that the true beauty of accomplishment, athletic or otherwise, is found not only in what is done or avoided, but in the depth the world provides through contrast.  Brown captures this perfectly.