Destroy Your Need To Win To Become Unstoppable | Mikaela Shiffrin

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Mikaela Shiffrin has won more World Cup races than any alpine skier in history, and she has a confession: when she thinks about winning, she never wins. She reveals the boring philosophy that kept her at the top for 12 years, and why watching her childhood hero crumble under Olympic pressure taught her to completely redefine success.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:12.5	What is the Olympics like? Was that the dream for you growing up?
0:15.9	No. Well, it was a part of my dream. I did, like, I had a little notebook when I was younger that was like, I want to, I'm going
0:24.2	to be Olympic champion.
0:25.5	I think it was, something was like, I'm going to be the youngest Olympic gold medalist
0:29.5	in history.
0:30.8	And that actually did happen.
0:32.9	But.
0:34.1	15, 16, how old?
0:36.0	I was, I was 18. 18. 18. 18. I was the youngest swall in gold medal. Sure. So there's an asterisk on that. But that was one thing I wrote like in a journal. But really mostly my goals had nothing to do with the Olympics. Like my goal was always I want to be the best year in the world. I always looked up to Bode Miller as my big idol and
0:55.5	he was like at the time, you know, he won the overall globe. He was winning individual races. He was
1:01.0	like, and he was inspiring people. And one of my favorite movies of all time was his documentary
1:07.3	Flying Downhill, which is like, I don't even know, I don't know if you can buy it
1:12.3	somewhere now. Like, I don't need, I would literally want to go back and watch it again, but I'm not
1:16.2	really sure where to find it because I had it on a DVD. And I don't like have a way to play it
1:20.9	anymore. But that was like my most inspiring, he really inspired me to truly be, want to be a
1:27.4	ski racer.
1:28.0	Really?
1:28.2	He's like the reason I identified myself at eight years old as a ski racer and I just...
1:34.1	Did you watch him on TV or in the Olympics or what did you see him?
1:36.8	I watched him on TV.
1:37.9	I watched him on, we had, we would get these DVDs every year.
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