40 Seconds to Fame or Failure with Olympic Speed Skater Apolo Ohno

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In speed skating, a hard pivot is an aggressive turn that requires balance, focus, and courage. Blasting down the ice, shoulder to shoulder with another world-class competitor, blades on his feet, Apolo Ohno began his Olympic career in 2002, eventually winning eight gold medals and becoming the most decorated athlete in US Winter Olympics history. In today's episode, Apolo shares valuable lessons that can be applied to anyone looking to improve performance and make the most of the 86,400 seconds each day. Apolo's new book, Hard Pivot is now available for pre-order.

Topics in the conversation:

The mind is the most powerful asset or prison
What is your identity
Anger, rage, insecurities affect even the most successful people
The thin line between healthy and unhealthy obsession
Geniuses are often called insane until they succeed
Imposter syndrome during a career transition
Process > prize
Personal life lessons and motto include gratitude, giving, goals, grit, taking action

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, what's up?
0:05.8	Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live.
0:08.8	Today's incredible guest is the one and only Apollo Ono.
0:12.8	Apollo is the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian of all time, having eight medals in speed skating.
0:20.5	He's also a legend being able to transition
0:24.5	from that world where all of your focus and intensity for 15 years he talks about being able to
0:31.9	transition to being a successful happy person, a TV personality, a successful sports broadcaster, an entrepreneur,
0:39.2	and someone who's balanced. But it was not without its challenges getting from where he was
0:43.8	to where he is now. He's got a new book out, which is very, very helpful and smart called
0:48.7	Hard Pivot, Embracing Change. We talk about all these things, the challenges of the dark side,
0:53.8	of you will, of being world-class
0:55.0	at something, how to be motivated by intense fear and failure and not have that dominate your life,
1:01.0	how to go through this valley of darkness where you're changing identities because we will all have to change careers,
1:07.0	relationships, identities at some points in our life.
1:10.0	Super useful. I can't wait for you to
1:11.9	enjoy this episode. Yours truly with the one and only Apollo. Oh no. Take it away. This episode
1:18.3	of the Chase Jarvis Live show is brought to you by Creative Live. Creative Live is the world's
1:23.1	largest and best platform for creative and entrepreneurial education. Creators and entrepreneurs, hobbyists to full-time professionals,
1:30.8	they've all leveled up with their careers and their lives through taking courses on
1:35.6	Creative Live.
1:37.1	And to be fair, they also make this show happen.
1:39.7	They make it possible.
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