This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedandam. At the Olympic Games in 2021, one athlete arrived in Tokyo

with a mountain of expectations on her 4 foot eight inch frame.

Five medals in Rio, four of them gold and could do even better than that this time around here in Tokyo.

If you don't think that that's hard, then you really don't understand gymnastics.

People didn't just expect her to win gold medals in gymnastics.

They expected magic.

She has just set herself so far apart from the rest of the field

and not just on the condition.

The United States Hospital is in the United States

California. And Bile' pursuit of history starts tonight.

Four days into the games, Simone Biles pulled out of the competition.

I've just never felt like this going. Simone Biles pulled out of the competition.

I've just never felt like this going into a competition before,

and I tried to go out here and have fun and warm up in the back

went a little bit better, but then once I came out here,

I was like, no no mental is not there.

The world was stunned. An athlete with seemingly otherworldly powers was struggling. From the outside looking in it seemed hard to

understand and it raised a question if a world champion can be toppled by

these emotions what does it mean for the rest of us?

This week on Hidden Brain, in the latest in our success 2.0 series, we examined the voice inside

our heads that says, the world may think you are amazing, but you're really a fraud. It's hard to see ourselves clearly.

This is true in all manner of situations, but it can be especially true when we are confronting a challenge. At such moments, many of us start to doubt ourselves.

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