BITESIZE #67 | Tom Daley: Feeling different gave me the strength to succeed

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Sports, Self-improvement, Mindset, Growth Mindset, Health & Fitness, Non-negotiables, Education, Life Lessons, High Performance

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Tom Daley, one of Britain’s most recognised sportsmen, joined us for Ep5 and spoke about how his feelings of being different growing up gave him the strength to succeed.

Tom’s fame transcends his sport - he lost his father to cancer in 2011, publicly came out as gay, got married, had a baby and has became a key spokesperson for LGBT+ rights. His example has shown that all forms of difference can lead us to be more empowered, and self-assured.

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0:00.0	Welcome along to this bite-size episode of the High Performance Podcast.
0:03.6	The podcast that turns the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers
0:07.9	into your life lessons. And we're just going to share with you now a clip from one of the amazing
0:12.0	guests who's joined us over the years on high performance. Just to give you that little bit of
0:16.4	inspiration, maybe you're just searching for something, maybe you're struggling, maybe you feel great.
0:21.3	Either way, this is it for you. It's absolutely free. I hope you enjoy it.
0:25.6	It's today's bite-size episode of High Performance. My whole life, I feel like lots of the time I felt
0:32.4	people don't understand, people don't get it. With school, people just didn't get it that I wanted
0:39.6	to be at the pool for five hours after school. People didn't get the fact that I wanted to do
0:45.5	everything that I could. I couldn't go to the cinema in the evenings and come back at 10-30 if I
0:49.8	had to be up at six. I couldn't go to the parties on the weekend or drink when everyone else was.
0:54.8	Those little things, people just didn't understand that. Then I felt the same when my dad passed away.
1:01.4	I went and competed at the National Championships the week after.
1:05.2	We're looking back on now. It's crazy. I must have just, that's what my dad would have wanted
1:11.1	me to compete. He would have wanted me to carry on. I didn't miss any training sessions.
1:15.7	I don't know. There was just something that was very tunnel vision on that. It was almost like I
1:19.6	was shutting everything out. But again, I didn't think that any of the diving people understood
1:24.8	how I was feeling. I was always trying to just get things down and not think about it and just
1:30.1	be like, I know what I need to do and I just need to do it. Then the similar thing my whole life
1:34.7	is obviously I knew that I was different as long as I can remember. I think when I came out in 2013,
1:43.6	I almost felt alone then. I was like, I don't know if people understand how difficult it has
1:49.0	been for me growing up and feeling different, feeling on the outside and feeling like I was an
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