Jason Kenny: The mindset needed to achieve Olympic glory (E77)

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jason Kenny has just won his eighth cycling medal at the Tokyo Olympics to become Great Britain's most decorated Olympian of all time.

At the age of 20, Jason won his first Olympic gold, alongside Sir Chris Hoy, in the team sprint at the Beijing Games in 2008 and was one of the figureheads of the highly successful Great Britain Cycling Team at their home Olympics in London four years later, taking his career haul to three golds medals in the sprint and team sprint. But it was in Rio that Jason really wrote his name into British Olympic folklore, winning three more titles, in the team sprint, sprint and keirin.

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0:00.0	Hi there, welcome along to another brand new episode of the High Performance
0:04.8	Podcast to start your day and once again we hear from someone who in the
0:09.8	last day has won a medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Get ready for a conversation with
0:17.5	cyclist Jason Kenny. People confuse us with drivers but we're not the drivers we're more like the engine you know I mean and you wouldn't take your engine down to the shops would you you take your Ford Fiesta down the shop and keep your F1 engine for your car like you know what I mean so you put yourself first because you're
0:33.7	looking after the thing that will ultimately then hopefully deliver the results and you know
0:38.3	our legs are our tools and we have to look after them.
0:41.4	How'd you major a success then?
0:43.0	He's probably measured in how happier are as opposed to how many medals you've got.
0:48.0	Don't obsess with one part of the puzzle, you know, everything matters and always remember what the overall kind of picture is.
0:55.2	Jason is unlike anyone we've spoken to you know he as you'll hear he kind of spends most of his time
1:00.2	telling Damon and I that he doesn't have the answer to one of our questions
1:05.0	normally referring to it as being above his paygrade. Then he proceeds to give us a
1:09.3	really interesting insight into his mindset and the reason why he is a winner and not just a winner
1:16.3	why he is now team gee B's most decorated olympian and there's been so much talk hasn't there during these Olympics about
1:24.2	whether a silver or a bronze is worth winning and I know it's been stirred up by
1:28.2	one person in particular but the conversation is an absolute nonsense because that is just about external validation and we talk so much on this podcast about being process orientated, not outcome-orientated.
1:42.1	And if someone has done their very best and given their
1:45.1	all and they've won a bronze medal or a silver medal then they are in the top
1:50.0	three best people in the world of what they do.
1:53.2	And I really hate this conversation and I really think it's time to
1:55.8	retrain our brains when we consider what successes.
1:59.6	I think it's brilliant to strive to win,
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