How To Turn Big Dreams Into Reality With Small Daily Steps | Shaun White

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0:42Shaun White:I'm just a huge believer in kind of like the little steps. It's like, what little thing can I do that my competitors are probably not doing that might help me? Like what? But I don't know. Just I remember winning the event and it just dawned on me that all my competitors would probably. This is when I kind of went to the gym. It dawned on me that all my competitors were probably going to go celebrate. Like drink alcohol. Yeah, go party all night for sure. And I was like, what if I just hit the gym? Just why not? Just something that would. Why don't I just like push when they're going to not push?

1:20Shaun White:and, you know, just little things that I might be able to do to get to that place. And so I always and goal setting was huge. And I hesitate to talk about it just because it's I feel like it's talked about so much. But I don't really believe that people do it in the right way. You know, like, yeah, it's great to have a huge goal. But is that like really what you want? No, because it's like there's so many times, like I said, I really wanted to win the Olympics. in in korea and then i'm sitting in a hospital with my face ripped open and i was like do you really like how bad do you really want this and and it thankfully i really really wanted it and that was the goal and i was like you know and that helped me get there oddly enough but it's like it's like really finding like what that is and knowing it wholeheartedly like this is it and then you start that little pro that process of getting there if it's like you know are we selling t-shirts well one extra shirt sold is this or like maybe if i drive the car instead of shipping it right we're gonna move the needle like any little thing i could do to like move the needle in the right direction um and so like having that big goal and then having like a bunch of fun little goals on the way and something that would be obtained by getting to the big goal so um so it sounds like you know the universe is going to ask you do you really want this with the obstacles it puts in your way.

2:43Shaun White:Oh, for sure. Yeah. And people will question it and you'll question it. And, you know, and then, and then the people within your inner circle, cause you don't kind of listen to everybody else. Those people will question it. And you got to really, you know, know what you want, which is really hard. Um, but once you find it and know it wholeheartedly, then, okay, boom, that was a huge hurdle to clear. And then it's like well how can we get there and i've always i heard something a long time ago where you know instead of saying oh we can't do that that really shuts the doors like how could we how could we do it and that's that was me sitting after the olympics in russia when i lost and i was like okay well if i was gonna win again how would i do it and then i started like well i'd have to have a coach that you know did this for me and i'd have to have the pta you know and i started to build this scenario and i was like wow that actually seems doable you know and then i had like fun little goals along the way so like at the one olympics my goal was to um i wanted to be on the cover of rowing stone um which which had happened after the one olympics the first one i went to i was 19 and my goal was like well if i win again they might call me and i'll be ready this time you know and uh because i remember taking the photo i just flown in from wherever i was like they're like take your shirt off i was like i never take i'm so white and i remember the photos coming out i was like i don't know how i feel about this and anyway so i was like if it happens again i'm gonna be shredded yeah this will happen and i'll do this and this and and i remember watching like i got really into guns and roses and axel did a show where he's in these tiny american flag shorts yeah i was like well i can't run that but what if i had pants and so like i had these pants made and it became all about like trying to get on the rolling stone cover and to wear these pants rather than like winning the olympics and so it kind of changed the goal to something fun and funny rather than this daunting task of winning the olympics but i get the obviously winning the olympics would mean i got to wear the pants or whatever and so it literally all happened I won the Olympics, Rolling Stone called, I had the pants, we shot the photo, and then this actually all started because I was at the Hard Rock Casino, probably on my birthday or something, we did my 21st there, and I remember seeing all the jackets, I love music and guitar and rock and roll, and I was like, God, how do I get something of mine into the Hard Rock?

5:14Shaun White:Because it's all rock and roll memorabilia, and I was like, whoop, I was on the cover. That'd be cool. So like those pants and the board, all the stuff from the cover got displayed at the Hardline. So it was like a full circle. So even now I'm like planning my little. What's next? I'll tell you. Well, obviously, my fun goal is that I'm hoping that after five Olympics that I'm so well known as a snowboarder that it's so famous and well known that they're forced to change the Emojicon snowboarder to look like me. Ooh, that'd be sweet. That'd be great.

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