Tom Pidcock and Josh Kerr (Team GB): The Mindset Behind the Medals
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We had the privilege of catching up with two remarkable athletes fresh from their medal success at the 2024 Olympic Games: Mountain Biker Tom Pidcock and Middle-Distance Runner Josh Kerr.
In this episode, Jake takes a moment to reflect on Tom's candid insights into the importance of facing adversity head-on, the challenges he had to overcome to win the Olympic gold medal, and how embracing struggles, rather than avoiding them, was key to his success.
Jake also speaks with Josh Kerr to break down his intense rivalry and what really went down in the unforgettable 2024 Olympic race. Josh opens up about the mindset he adopted after securing the Olympic silver medal, the role of visualisation, and the importance of focusing on what he could control. He also touches on the sacrifices he made to reach this level, offering a candid look into the realities of elite competition.
This episode offers a deep dive into the mental and emotional aspects of high performance, with Tom and Josh sharing valuable lessons on resilience, preparation, and the pursuit of excellence.
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| 0:00.0 | I guess every athlete they enjoy the suffering. Then in the last few |
| 0:07.1 | laps it all started coming back to me and then I believe that I could still win. |
| 0:11.3 | When the time comes to strike I'm going to be super aggressive, |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to throw out with an attic. |
| 0:16.0 | You know, I felt like having that time would definitely cement me |
| 0:19.0 | is one of the best UK-50 on to be a runner-year runners of all time. |
| 0:21.0 | You've been in this sport since you were nine. You thought your big moment was this one, but I need 4 more years out of you. |
| 0:27.0 | That is Josh Kerr and Tom Pidcock, two of the stars of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. |
| 0:35.4 | You'll hear more from them in just a moment, but welcome along to the show. |
| 0:38.4 | You're listening to high performance. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Jay Humphrey, your host, a man who is fascinated with the lives of high-performing people, |
| 0:45.4 | and for the last five years, alongside my co-host, Damien Hughes, who for a very long time has been |
| 0:50.9 | a professor of high-performing cultures. We like to meet the most |
| 0:55.4 | fascinating people on the planet and just learn from them. We learn from their stories, |
| 0:59.2 | their successes, their struggles, allowing you and me to explore in our own life to be challenged at times but |
| 1:05.3 | ultimately to try and grow and I've been attempting to have a summer of a bit of growth, you know, |
| 1:10.6 | the way the world works. I suppose the world is set up to make us feel like we have to be |
| 1:14.6 | constantly working and if we're not working then we're not being useful well I've tried to take |
| 1:18.8 | a few weeks off work which I know is a real luxury I'm very fortunate to be able to do it but it's very interesting you know when I'm not on the train to London |
| 1:26.9 | when I'm not recording podcast episodes regularly when I'm not in meetings with the team my brain very quickly starts to ask me whether I'm actually being very useful and it is incredible that I think as human beings we've lost the ability to see sitting and being choir or reading a book or doing something creative as actually |
| 1:46.5 | useful. So I've really enjoyed doing that for the last two or three weeks and in that time the |
| 1:51.4 | high performance team will be delighted to know I've come up with |
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