#019: Katrin Davidsdottir
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In this episode: Talking with Katrin Davidsdottir about moving to the U.S. to train, surrounding yourself with the right people, & putting in 100% effort.
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| 0:00.0 | When we started working together in 2015 or like late 2014-2015, the biggest thing that happened |
| 0:07.2 | and the biggest differentiator between me failing those rope climbs in 2014 and us actually |
| 0:13.7 | going winning the games in 2015, it was all mindset. You know, I was fit in 2014 and I was fit in 2015. |
| 0:23.8 | It was my head that made the difference and how much we had worked on that. |
| 0:34.2 | So I think that's something that you know it's out there and that we can all start learning and |
| 0:39.4 | applying and we just believe it so much. It's all out there. Everyone, I think everyone knows |
| 0:48.8 | it all. It's just, do they believe it? What confidence in it has nothing to do with winning |
| 0:54.8 | or the leaderboard. What confidence is is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough. |
| 1:06.5 | Hi Ben, special guest on today's episode. Catherine, Catherine and I just sat down, had a nice chat |
| 1:16.4 | and before we get to that, I just kind of wanted to talk to you a little bit about one thing. |
| 1:22.3 | Recently on Instagram, you posted an image of your training together and you said |
| 1:32.3 | paraphrasing but something along the lines of that you've learned more from her about being a |
| 1:37.1 | champion than you could ever teach her. I thought that that was really interesting |
| 1:41.1 | and really telling and I'm curious what you meant by that. I'm curious sort of should I have been |
| 1:50.8 | surprised by that, I guess, first of all and then why? What have you learned from her that |
| 2:02.0 | that made you say that? I've learned everything that there is to, I don't know, I should say everything |
| 2:10.7 | there is. I've learned, I've seen a really first-hand account and kind of pulled the curtain back |
| 2:17.6 | and seen what the daily rituals, practices and routines are of a champion. I can read about it, |
| 2:24.8 | I can have my own thought process about it, I can research it, I can try and pull the best practices |
| 2:30.0 | of other high achievers and have formulate my own opinions of what this looks like |
| 2:35.2 | but until you see it first-hand, you don't see that it's hard to kind of conceptualize what it |
| 2:43.1 | looks like on a day-to-day actionable level. I have this a theory about what I want my athletes to |
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