What It Means to Be on That Hill | Seth Wickersham

How do you keep climbing when there’s no guarantee your work will pay off? Sportswriter Seth Wickersham joins Ryan to talk about the Springsteen lyric that inspired his new book Be On That Hill , the role luck plays in success, and what keeps ambitious people showing up when the work gets hard. 📚 Books Mentioned: Be On That Hill by Seth Wickersham It’s Better To Be Feared by Seth Wickersham American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham 🎶 Lyrics are from Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen Seth Wickersham is a senior writer at ESPN and the New York Times bestselling author of Be On That Hill , It’s Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness , American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback . Focusing primarily on longform enterprise and investigative work on the National Football League, Wickersham has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting, and his stories have been anthologized in the Best American Magazine Writing, the Best American Sports Writing , and Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists, among others. Released in 2021, It’s Better to Be Feared was named N…