E126: Gary Lineker - Biggest mistakes, greatest achievements and the power of being yourself
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Gary Lineker is a former professional footballer and a current sports broadcaster. In this episode Gary shares with us how the crucial positive thinking and practicing gratitude was for his success. He shares that although he worked hard, he didn’t put loads of thought into living a high performance life - he attributes a lot of his success to good luck and waiting his turn. Gary didn’t worry about achieving success, but rather focused on the process.
We chat about the importance of kindness, self-awareness and why family is at the centre of everything. Gary shares his thoughts on social media and why if he had to he would happily do it all over again…
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jake Humphrey and you're listening to High Performance. I give to you full free |
| 0:06.4 | every single week. This podcast reminds you that it's within your ambition, your purpose, |
| 0:11.8 | your story, it's all within. We just help you unlock it by turning the lived experiences |
| 0:17.3 | of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. So right now, allow myself |
| 0:22.0 | and Professor Damien Hughes an expert in high performing cultures to speak to the greatest |
| 0:26.6 | leaders, thinkers, sport stars, entrepreneurs and artists on the planet so they can be your |
| 0:32.0 | teacher. Remember please, this podcast is not about high achievement or high success, |
| 0:37.4 | it's about high happiness, high self worth and taking you closer to a life of fulfillment, |
| 0:43.0 | empathy and understanding. And on that note, before we go any further, everyone on the high |
| 0:48.5 | performance podcast would like to send their love and congratulations to Dame Kelly Holmes, |
| 0:53.5 | who came out as gay in the last few days and Dame Kelly actually joined us on high performance. |
| 0:59.0 | She was one of the very first people to say yes to the emails that we were sending out, |
| 1:03.4 | asking people if they would come and be a guest on this strange new podcast journey that |
| 1:08.0 | we found ourselves on and she was honest, she was disarming, she spoke about things that |
| 1:14.0 | I had never heard her speak about before and it's been an incredible journey her life. |
| 1:18.8 | So if you want to hear what Dame Kelly Holmes said to us on the high performance podcast, |
| 1:22.8 | episode 10 is where you need to head to. But on behalf of all of us, and I know it was a big |
| 1:28.6 | moment for Dame Kelly Holmes and following in the footsteps of Jake Daniels and another |
| 1:34.6 | high profile sports people as well, it's fantastic that this conversation about people's sexuality |
| 1:40.4 | is being discussed and people feel now in 2022 that the world is a world where they can |
| 1:47.4 | openly say I'm gay and they'll be accepted. So Dame Kelly, congratulations from all of us. |
| 1:54.0 | Now onto today's episode, this is what's installed for you. |
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