Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A Why We Play conversation recorded at the 2025 Project Play Summit, where the series launched.

Best-selling author Michael Lewis reflects on how youth sports have shaped modern parenting, how the culture of competition, opportunity, and pressure has evolved across generations, and what it reveals about the way we raise and prepare young people today.

Watch the full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=OWP3WG3evT0

Learn more about Why We Play: aspeninstitute.org/programs/sports-and-society/why-we-play