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A New Way of Being

Caitlyn Jenner: Success Won’t Silence What’s Beneath

A New Way of Being

Simon Mundie

Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.8523 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Success is not synonymous with happiness and wellbeing. So many high performers reach the top of the proverbial Everest only to discover that it did not provide the lasting satisfaction that it seemed to promise. One such person is Caitlyn Jenner, who won gold in the Olympic decathlon in 1976. However, the issues that were bubbling away under the surface were free to reassert themselves once the Games were over.


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0:00.0

This clip is from my chat with Caitlin Jenner when I went to her house in Malibu.

0:09.9

And the lesson here is about recognising that success is not a panacea for internal issues

0:15.6

and an inner sense of lack. Now success can cover issues up for a while, but when the glow fades, as it

0:23.3

always does, the same issues will still be there in the background. So Caitlin talks about some of

0:28.4

the events that she won on the way to winning decathlon gold at the 1976 Olympics, and then

0:34.2

the realisation once it was all over that success was not the remedy it sometimes promises to be.

0:43.7

The 400 meters, so Fred Thompson, who was on the American team with you,

0:49.3

he said he normally used to beat you in the 400.

0:51.6

On this day, you came burning out of the corner,

0:54.8

absolutely took them apart, so everyone apart. I ran that race in my head for four years. And my whole

1:00.0

year of training was to peak on that day. And I had run that race in my head so many times.

1:07.0

And in my head, I had run that second turn. I said, this way I'm going to run the race.

1:11.7

Take off, accelerate as fast as I can to get to my pace, relax, go down the back stretch

1:18.2

at that pace. Don't lose it. But stay relaxed, relax, relax, relax, relax, go, go, go, go.

1:25.7

And as soon as you hit that turn, go.

1:29.3

Go.

1:30.3

So my third is just run the hell out of that turn.

1:35.3

Just treat it like an open hundred.

1:38.3

Yeah.

1:39.3

You know?

1:40.3

And I came off the turn, and I couldn't see anybody around me. I wasn't going to look back. I didn't

1:47.1

care. It's only my time I'm trying to get. And I kept waiting for somebody to go, you know,

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