Chapter 1: What lessons did the Olympics teach us about failure?
The sixth lesson that the Olympics taught us is this. You don't need to like failure, but you've got to accept it's an inevitable part of pushing your limits. Again, I define failure as the refusal to move forward. So most things in life aren't failures.
And also, if you quit something because it doesn't align with you anymore and you move on to something else, I also don't consider that a failure. Now, if we just straight up give the fuck up after one hard day, Maybe that's a failure. Maybe that's a failure. But in the kind of the sports context, the context that we've been discussing here on this episode, that's not a failure.
It's just a pivot, an adjustment, a change, a setback, a mistake, a challenge, an opportunity for growth.
Chapter 2: How can we redefine failure in our personal growth journey?
That's what it is because failure is the refusal to move forward. So if you get back up and continue moving forward, not a failure, but you have to accept that a setback or a quote unquote failure or a challenge or a misstep or losing is part of pushing your limits. So you don't need to like failure. Totally fine. But you have to accept it, that it's part of the process.
However you define that word, you get my point. And so I think his name was Ilya Malini. I can't say his name, whatever, but I think he was the quad god, I think. Don't quote me on that. But he said, you know, I blew it after his devastating misstep in figure skating. devastating misstep in figure skating, sometimes it is really that simple. Failure sucks. Blowing it sucks. Not winning sucks.
Losing sucks. And it is part of the process. That's why it's vulnerable and hard to go all in on something. That's why most people don't do it because they want to avoid this feeling right here, the feeling of I let myself down, I let my country down, I let my team down, I let my parents down, I let everyone down that loved me or believed in me and I blew it in this moment. That will happen.
That will happen. That is an inevitable part of pursuing something hard. But everything is hard. Not pursuing something is hard. Not living up to your capabilities is hard. Not owning your potential is hard. And then owning your potential, trying to live up to your capabilities, pushing yourself, it's all fucking hard. You have to choose your hard.
And I say choose the hard where you're expressing the best version of yourself in greatest service to the world. The quad God blew it, and we all will. That's part of the game. Yes, failure sucks, or whatever word you want to use to describe it. You know, falling down sucks. But what can we do to learn from it? What can we do to keep showing back up?
What can we do to learn how to grow more mentally tough and more optimistic because of it?
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Chapter 3: What mindset shifts can help us embrace setbacks?
What tweaks and adjustments can we make? Can we have a little bit more fun? Can we care a little bit more deeply? All of that wrapped up into those questions of how you reflect on that performance and then ultimately the decision you make is then to keep going.
The decision you make is to press ahead, to move forward, because that's the type of person you've built through all these trials and tribulations as you trying to become the best in the world at something or simply become the best in the world, the best version of you in the world, excuse me.
And sports, yes, are about elite and winning and all this type of stuff, but really sports develop us into becoming a winner, not just winning. And I think that's a huge distinction. We're not just in sports or in life to win.
We are developing the ability to win by developing self-respect and mindset and process and systems and all these things about ourself that we know that we can accomplish and the capabilities that we hold. That's really important. Really important. And I think those six lessons applied to your life can absolutely change the fabric of your life, the texture of your mind.
But really, if you don't only get one thing out of this episode, live by these two standards. Try your hardest, give your best effort, and have fun. That's really, really awesome.
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