Ronnie O'Sullivan

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Giving yourself permission to enjoy something is a discipline that requires practice. This is just one of the many lessons snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan has learnt as he’s changed his approach to the game over the years.

In this chat with Fearne, Ronnie talks about how he would now always choose happiness over traditional markers of success, and how his challenging childhood made him incredibly resilient and able to cope with change, injustice, and adversity.

In Ronnie's latest book, Unbreakable, he shares what it takes to be the very best in your field. It's out on 11th May.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that questions what success in life
0:08.0	really looks like.
0:09.0	Today, I'm chatting to Ronnie O. Sullivan.
0:12.6	I want to look like the guy that's actually enjoying what he's doing, win, lose, draw
0:15.8	whatever.
0:16.8	I want to still come out and go, you know what, I actually enjoyed that because I spent
0:19.8	a lot of time winning and not enjoying it.
0:21.7	So I have had that privilege if you like, of winning a lot and not being happy and I've
0:27.2	had that privilege of not winning so much, still doing all right, but being happy because
0:31.8	I've got the right balance and I went, I'm not prepared to win a lot but be unhappy
0:36.6	anymore.
0:37.6	So I'm more kind of like about life's a marathon, it's not a sprint.
0:41.7	Ronnie's had a career spanning over three decades, but his journey to becoming the greatest
0:47.5	snooker player of all time has been filled with extremes.
0:52.2	He was a teenage snooker prodigy but the pressure that came with that plus a challenging
0:57.9	home life led him to a life of excess and addiction, all of which he details in his
1:03.7	memoir Unbreakable.
1:06.0	Ronnie was very close to walking away from snooker a bit over a decade ago, but after meeting
1:12.5	with renowned psychiatrist Steve Peters, his career was reinvigorated.
1:18.9	He became clear very quickly in this chat how much of his current mindset Ronnie attributes
1:24.4	to his work with Steve.
1:26.8	There's a little bit of a connection between Ronnie and my family actually, which he touches
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