Tom Daley
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Are you conscious of where the pressures you feel are coming from? Are they external or internal? Diver Tom Daley has been meditating on these different types of pressures recently, so in this chat he and Fearne discuss the power of validating ourselves rather than waiting for others to tell us we’re doing well. Plus, he explains the process he and husband Lance had to go through to adopt as a same sex couple, and how having a son has changed his view on chasing perfection.
Tom’s book is called Coming Up For Air, and it’s out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place. This is going to be a big year for Happy Place. |
| 0:07.6 | Lots of exciting stuff that will be happening in real life to share with you so, so soon. |
| 0:13.9 | And as ever, loads of completely brilliant guests on the podcast where it's starting the year |
| 0:20.1 | with the gorgeous Tom Daly. The one thing that being a parent for me is to let go of chasing perfection. |
| 0:28.5 | You're never going to get absolute perfection and realising that there's more to life than just |
| 0:34.0 | constantly chasing perfection allowed me to actually perform better anyway because I wasn't so hard |
| 0:39.2 | on myself. I was kind to myself when things weren't going right because I would try and put myself |
| 0:44.1 | in the position of if Robbie didn't do something right, how would I react? There's always |
| 0:47.7 | comes from a place of kindness and it's okay, we'll get there, don't worry, give yourself a chance. |
| 0:53.3 | Tom started diving competitively in 2002 and is a multiple Commonwealth European and World champion |
| 1:00.4 | but it wasn't until the Tokyo 2020 games that he won an Olympic gold. How did he do it? Well, |
| 1:07.2 | it will become clear when you hear this chat that he's recently let go of chasing perfection. |
| 1:12.6 | Becoming a parent will definitely do that for you. It seems as though ironically no longer being |
| 1:18.3 | defined by achieving perfection in his career is what allowed him to win that sort after medal. |
| 1:25.2 | Oh, and we do of course talk about knitting because how could we not? |
| 1:32.4 | Hi there, it's Jake here from the High Performance Podcast and I'm here just to talk to you |
| 1:35.9 | briefly about Mercedes-Benz and how they're making your life easier through groundbreaking |
| 1:41.2 | innovations with their cars. Like MBUX, their multimedia system with AI which recommends things you |
| 1:47.5 | might find useful such as a faster way to work. If your roots congested or a playlist of all your |
| 1:52.1 | favorite songs all you have to do is ask. You can also create a unique user profile to set up your |
| 1:58.1 | car just the way you like it. It remembers all your preferences like ambient lighting to give you |
| 2:02.5 | a personalized driving experience. It can even remind you to call your mum on the way home. |
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