BITESIZE #25 | Ben Ainslie: Focus on the failure with brutal honesty
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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As part of our special Olympic series with Lotus Cars, we’re delving into the rich archive for lessons from Olympic legends! This week’s comes from Ben Ainslie, the most successful Olympic sailor of all time, with four golds and one silver medal over a 16 year period.
Ben talks about focussing on failure with brutal honesty, with the mindset of improvement. Don’t ignore the bad...or you’ll never turn it into the good 🙌
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