- 167
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 31
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 723M
- YouTube views
About Greatness
Learn from history’s greatest. Each week, Jonathan Watts dives into the lives and moments of the world's most extraordinary people, uncovering timeless lessons and unforgettable stories.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Watts
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Jun 2022
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 167 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
172. Rafael Nadal
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
171. Morgan Housel - The Lessons that Never Change
23 Sept 2026
170. An Ode to the Robins - LeBron James, Mary Kay Ash, Bart Starr, Howard Schultz
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172. Rafael Nadal
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] No matter how a year went, whether he was number one in the world or he was struggling, he just had this ability to view each year as like a blank canvas. Nadal's French Open record is a tribute to one's player deep and singular connection to one's surface and his ability to wipe the slate genuinely clean each spring. He had the humility to start from zero year after year after year, said French star Gilles Simon. This is also something that we, I mean, we just mentioned Vince Lombardi. But this is something we mentioned in his episode. that once he, especially once he started winning with the Green Bay Packers, he made like this deliberate effort to view each year and actually each player completely from square one to avoid like any sort of complacency. […]
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- Frank Serpico
- Jiro Ono
- Rhea Seddon
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 722,942,588
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 23 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 8 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 67
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 77
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