Max Whitlock: Why even the most successful winners can struggle (E158)

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Sports, Self-improvement, Mindset, Growth Mindset, Health & Fitness, Non-negotiables, Education, Life Lessons, High Performance

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Max Whitlock is a six-time Olympic winning artistic gymnast. He became Britain's first ever Olympic gold medalist in artistic gymnastics in the 2016 Olympics. In this episode they dive deep into mental health, Max’s fear of failure and the pressures he faced as an Olympic gymnast. Max speaks openly about his battle with depression, how he struggled when gymnastics was removed from his life and how important self improvement and setting new goals has been in his recovery.

He shares the techniques he uses to challenge negative thought patterns and how he gets himself motivated. They discuss the importance of routine and structure, but how this can also be your downfall…

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1:08.0	I think it's about me then going forwards into that pressure environment, a competition or event or whatever it is,
1:16.2	that I've done all I can and I think when you do that pressure does lift slightly. It doesn't lift completely but it lifts slightly because actually there was no more that I could do
1:20.6	in that period leading up to the competition or there's no more I could do literally
1:24.1	on the day of the competition. I've checked everything off. It wasn't
1:28.4	sustainable almost having that mask up. I think I didn't realize at the time but one day that's going to
1:33.8	come tumbling on you and it's going to start crashing. I think it got to a
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