Destroy Your Need To Win To Become Unstoppable | Mikaela Shiffrin

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12What is the Olympics like? Was that the dream for you growing up? No. Well, it was a part of my dream. I had a little notebook when I was younger that was like, I'm going to be Olympic champion. I think it was something that was like, I'm going to be the youngest Olympic gold medalist in history. And that actually did happen. but 15 15 16 however uh i was i was 18 18 18 i was the youngest swall in gold medal sure so there's an asterisk on that but um that was one thing i wrote like in a journal but really mostly my goals had nothing to do with the olympics like my goal was always i want to be the best gear in the world i always looked up to bode miller yeah as my big idol and he was like at the time you know he won the overall globe he was winning individual races he was like and he was inspiring people and one of my favorite movies of all time was his documentary flying downhill which is like I don't even know I don't know if you can buy it somewhere now like I don't I would literally want to go back and watch it again but I'm not really sure where to find it because I had it on a DVD and I don't like have a way to play it anymore but that was like my most inspiring he really inspired me to truly be want to be a ski racer really he's like the reason i identified myself at eight years old as a ski racer and i just did you watch him on tv or the olympics or what did you see i watched him on tv i watched him on we had uh we would get these dvds every year it's called like world cup winning runs and it's you know it's produced by US Ski and Snowboard and it's like the crazy ski fanatics like whatever like your how-to videos and things like that but it was just a compilation of all the season's best winning runs and my parents used to get those DVDs and I would watch them and it was like all Bodie's runs and it's just amazing and then you know during the Olympics as well and but it wasn't I think maybe what helped me sort of steer away from having the big big olympic dream was actually seeing some of what he experienced through the olympics and what was that he had great great successes he got the medals and everything and and he also had like the terrible olympics that like i wish i could i wish i could have gotten into his mind and no one was going on for him at the time if it was about pressure, if it was about this or that, or if he just didn't really care because he was the kind of athlete who's like, I don't care about the one medal.

2:50I like, I want to experience whatever it is that feels fulfilling in that moment. And it might not be winning the Olympic medal. It might be like just experiencing the Olympic like scene in a different way. And people always have an opinion and judge it and get right into it. And I saw that as a child, as a child. And it was like, I don't want to ever have to deal with something like that. Like, do your thing. Why do people have to have an opinion about it? And the opinion itself is like adds pressure and that makes it harder. I feel like that sort of watching him go through the successes he had and the challenges that he faced gave me some insight into.

3:35like my own philosophy and what I find important in skiing which is it's literally just about like it's it's kind of so boring but it's just about the turn and making really good turns interesting so it's like when you talk about the process and stuff and I know that gets I feel like in sports people really really want to hear about like your goals that you want to be the greatest of all time like the Michael Jordan story like the I know you're gonna be NBA champion like you're gonna do this you're gonna be the greatest and all of the hype and the pressure is built up and then he does it and it's like greater than and I've always been like I don't think I'm going to do any of this I really just want to be a very good skier and ski well and ski fast and maybe someday I can kind of be the best in the world and if I can do that maybe I'll hold on to it and now it's been like 12 years of racing world cup where i've been more or less at the top level and it's still like i'm still in disbelief but i still i always still go back to the days watching like my greatest idols like bode miller and yannick's a coast legend on your person and all these these athletes that i looked up to and i don't know it's just like You see the struggle that they have, and you see it from an outsider's perspective.

4:56And then now having gone through a lot of that and seeing it from the insider's perspective, we all feel it and experience it differently. Feel what, the pressure? The pressure or the failure or the success, whatever it is. Everybody's inspired by something different. So some athletes, there's some athletes out there who literally can win races just because they want to be, they just want to win it. Like just thinking I want to win this race gives them the right mindset and the right intensity that they just, they do, they win it. And when I think I want to win, I never win. Really? Never, ever.

5:35But you rarely lose. Yeah, if I'm thinking about winning, I will not win the race. Come on. It's happened, it's almost like 100 % of the time. So what do you need to think about? I have to think about like the intensity of my skiing or like I have to think about racing the course versus winning. It always has to be like what's happening between the start and the finish line, not what's going to happen after the finish. Wow.

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