I WILL WIN - The Most Powerful Motivational Speeches for Success
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What motivates us to give everything we have?
Are you giving everything you have? And no, I don't mean more than normal or quote-unquote a lot. I mean everything. I'm currently reading the founder of Lululemon, Chip Wilson's autobiography, and there's kind of a cool little side story in the book where, you know, he talks about his days of being a swimmer and One of the races he competed in was the 100-meter backstroke, which is four lengths of the pool. And Chip mentions that the general strategy at this time was to conserve energy, right? And then on the final lap, you turn it on, right? You give everything you have so you finish with that energy, you know, look good at the finish line, and hopefully it's enough to kind of push you past the competition.
And before one of his swim meets, his dad calls him up with an idea. He says, Chip, why don't, instead of conserving, you pretend this is only a 25-meter race? One lap. And you just go all out like a bat out of hell. You save nothing. One sprint.
How did Chip Wilson's swimming strategy change his performance?
And just see how your body adapts for the rest. I think he even jokes, hey, if you start drowning, buddy, I'll jump in and save you. And Chip... who's an admittedly mediocre swimmer at the time, he listened to his dad. And the race starts, he goes out as hard as he possibly can for the first 25. When all is said and done, you fast forward to the end of that race, not only did he win, he'd broken the Canadian record by an insane amount. I think it was like seven or eight seconds. Not because the race changed, Because his perspective changed. The way he approached the race changed. And you think of all that potential, right? All of that energy was just being wasted. It was kept in reserve to be used at a time that never arrived, right?
I mean, literally, the race would end before he could empty that tank out. And even with that sprint, who knows how much more he had left. Could have been more in the tank. It's like when he figured that out, how much he was leaving on the table, it was game over. I had a coach in college who would say a similar thing. He was the freshman coach of the rowing team. Great coach and probably one of the funniest people I've ever known. He'd remind us at the starting line, I'll give you the G-rated version, he'd say, gentlemen, go out with everything you have. Remember, it's better to go out too hard and empty your tank too early than it is to cross that finish line not having emptied your tank at all. Both of these little anecdotes, right, they paint a picture of the magnitude of human potential.
How our default setting is to conserve, to protect, to not go all in. We let so much go to waste. We allow fear to dictate output as it shines a spotlight on a time that never comes. Why would you give everything? It's whispering, hey, but what if you're tired in the final 90 seconds? Save some. Hey, don't give everything. Hold back. It just gives us wrong info. And I'm obviously not saying, you know, start an ultramarathon at a sub-five minute pace. I'm just pointing out the truth. that we keep too much in. There's more in us that never gets shown, never gets exposure. The reality is if we all move that dial just a little further, if we acted like every day was a 25 meter sprint and not a small part of a 200 or 100 or a piece of a marathon, where could we be?
See, the body has an incredible ability to adjust and recover. In fact, that's one thing that makes human beings so special. We can adapt. And I know, I've recently, with my own workouts, as a 38-year-old man, I'm getting better results now than I've ever gotten before. And part of that's because I'm understanding that if I push myself past the brink, the world does not implode. I just recover. And in fact, I recover well. When you ask yourself for more than you've ever given, your body, what feels like miraculously, it finds a way. You drop yourself into the maze of discomfort, you will find your way out. It's just that we don't often green light that journey. See, this isn't a story about right and wrong.
It's a story about more and the option before you.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What motivates us to give everything we have?
0:00–1:14
2
How did Chip Wilson's swimming strategy change his performance?
1:14–8:21
3
What lessons can we learn from Chip's record-breaking swim?
8:21–11:56
4
Why do we hold back our potential in life?
11:56–17:23
5
How does fear influence our willingness to take risks?
17:23–26:20
6
What is the importance of embracing discomfort for growth?
26:20–38:15
Speakers
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