Turn Your Fear Of Disappointing Others Into Unshakable Confidence | Mikaela Shiffrin
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Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.
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.
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.
Was it more worried about what the people closest to you were going to say? No. What the media were going to say?
It was media. It was like fear of losing. More just fear of what disappointment comes when you don't exceed the expectations. I'd been really used to kind of exceeding people's expectations. And then... And then it was like, I'm still winning, but just winning alone isn't good enough anymore. I actually have to win by more. And if I'm going to exceed people's expectations, now I need to make winning by two seconds, three seconds a regular thing.
That's a lot of pressure.
I mean, it is and it isn't. It's so much that it's not realistic. And I knew it at the time, but I didn't know how to explain that. And it just... Like, it's taken me a long time to get to this point now where I just realized that people will catch up. And I also realized, like, during that period of time, you know, after every race, we go through the mix zone and go through all the media. And I felt like the media was directing questions in a very negative way if I didn't win by chance. a certain amount, or if I had a really, like, strong reaction one race, they were like, why is this one so much more important to you? And those are all fair questions. My mind would go there if I was them as well. But I would really answer, I would take their question so literally and answer to that.
And now I realize... People still do that. They kind of try to get into your mind, and they say, they ask a question, but it insinuates that you feel a certain way, instead of just asking how you feel sometimes. And there's nothing wrong with it. Honestly, it's just like, if you ask the same question over and over, and you want to word it a different way, sometimes a reporter might ask, like, you know, is it really disappointing that you came in second this race? This was this was this season when it was the 85th.
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