At the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Norway took home more gold medals than any other country.
But they didn’t just win the most medals that year—they won more than any other country in a single Olympics ever.
The secret behind their success? No jerks.
“We have a saying,” Alpine skier Aksel Lund Svindal told the New York Times. “There is almost no skill or ability you can have that is so good it allows you to ruin the social qualities of the team.”
