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The Daily Motivation

Gold-Medal Olympian's Guide to Conquering Your Worst Fear | Mikaela Shiffrin 403

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8960 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this episode with Gold Medal Olympian, Mikaela Shiffrin, the discussion centers around her expertise as the worlds fastest downhill skier and the fears she conquered to get there. Mikaela offers practical advice and personal experiences on how to overcome obstacles and challenges to achieve one's goals, drawing from her own impressive athletic career, and the fears she still struggles with today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi my name is Louis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:07.0

What is your biggest fear moving forward in your career and also in your personal life outside of your career?

0:21.0

Right now I can't really think of a fear I have in my career.

0:24.8

The only thing might be injury that's always there.

0:28.2

I do get afraid when I'm skiing.

0:29.9

A lot of racers will say they don't have any fear and I definitely do.

0:34.4

Yeah. I think it's fine.

0:36.4

Crashing at 60 miles an hour is not fun.

0:38.8

It's not fun.

0:39.8

Even if you got a helmet on it's not fun.

0:40.4

Not fun.

0:40.9

And some would argue you have to, you can't have fear because you have to be willing to do that and I'm like well I'm still afraid of doing that but I'm gonna do this anyway.

0:49.0

So I think there's all different ways you can approach that. You don't have the fear hold your back.

0:53.6

Yeah, but I definitely have it and I think it's I do think it's important to

0:58.2

admit when you have fear to yourself because it's kind of like it's like a

1:02.4

relationship and you're like I gotta let you know that I'm feeling this right now and and then you still like you still go for it.

1:10.4

Yeah absolutely. I think I'm probably gonna know a little bit more about what I'm afraid of once we get back into the race season.

1:17.9

There's things pop up that I right now I don't feel it. I maybe feel a little bit on top of the world. This past season was amazing. I have nothing else that I expect to do, but I'm still like I'm still training. I still feel like I'm doing great with my skiing and I feel like people have figured out that

1:35.9

expectations are sort of meaningless because I've exceeded them I've failed

1:41.0

miserably. The only thing I can really think of that would be a fear of

1:44.7

mine is how it goes in the upcoming Olympics. And mostly if I were to not win any medals again, how would people react again?

1:56.0

But I actually asked somebody kind of an advisor in one of my sponsors.

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