The Daily Motivation
Turn Your Fear Of Disappointing Others Into Unshakable Confidence | Mikaela Shiffrin
10 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Pretty much every single race besides one, I won by over two seconds.
That's crazy.
And then the one race was my comeback race. It was five tenths or something. And that season is like the worst thing that happened to me because it set everyone's expectations that I was now going to win every race by over two seconds for the rest of my career. So I came back the next season or, you know, when you finish the season, you have your summer period training, blah, blah, blah.
First race of the season was in Finland for 2015, 16. And I won it by seven tenths, six tenths of a second.
She's slowing down.
Yeah. Yes.
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Chapter 2: What expectations did Mikaela Shiffrin face after her breakthrough season?
So everyone was like, are you worried the competition's getting so much better? Are you getting worse? And it was this whole it was a weird, weird thing where I'd never I'd never experienced a victory where people put such a negative spin on it. And that was that like then set me into the next phase of my career, which was a lot of like.
performance anxiety really and it all surrounded around like what media would say and what people around me would say and not the closest people but even then like even those closest to me would be like oh it'd be so great if you could just like stomp on this race like if you could win it by a second too so like we want to get back there and and I get it I just was like I don't
You're doing the best you can do.
I'm doing the best I can. I don't think we're there. Like, I actually think the competition is much stronger and That happened, that was a moment in time, or a season in time, and I don't think we're gonna be in a place where I win races by two seconds anymore. But that expectation, that then lasted, it's like a four to five year delay.
It took people four to five years to catch up to the expectations I set in the beginning of my career, and then it took them four to five years to figure out that that might not be what's gonna happen. all the time. It was just weird. So there's this phase where I was puking at the start of every race.
Really?
Yeah. Oh, terrible. Every race. Almost every race.
Just because of anxiety?
Because of anxiety.
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Chapter 3: How did performance anxiety affect Mikaela's racing career?
Physically, you're prepared for really whatever it can get.
You've been training so hard being into it.
And then they all just get intertwined. And then you're like, why don't my muscles work? And sometimes all I need is just one day, one recovery day. And then I'm literally back to it.
Back to back was tough.
Yeah.
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