Venus Williams: THIS Is How You TRAIN YOUR MIND For SUCCESS, CONFIDENCE, & FULFILLMENT

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Tennis superstar Venus Williams shares her perspective on the challenges and pressures that come with achieving success at a young age. Williams emphasizes the importance of having a strong support system, particularly from her family, who stood by her side through both victories and defeats. She also highlights the significance of finding joy in the process and putting in the hard work, rather than solely focusing on the end result. Williams credits her spiritual background and her father's encouragement to "have fun" on the court as key factors in maintaining a healthy mindset throughout her career.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	I think a lot of people want to win at whatever game they're playing in life or their career or their business or their sport.
0:18.0	They want to be more successful. They want to win.
0:21.0	The more people I interview and ask about this who have
0:23.6	fame, wealth, and success, they talk about you know the pressures that come with
0:29.2	that. Did you feel like you were mentally and emotionally prepared when you became, you know, a world icon in your
0:37.3	sports and you started to gain popularity, fame, success, money?
0:42.1	Did you feel you were mentally and emotionally prepared or was it was
0:45.5	it a lot of pressure at first I started really young yeah a match was were teen so
0:52.1	a lot of it though the youth in the inexperienced is in some way of
0:56.6	protection you just don't really really get it you don't now. But also it can go the other way too. I think there were some
1:07.1	matches where I felt pressure to perform up to maybe what I was supposed to be like this hype. But at the end of the day, I failed sometimes and then the failure was a lesson.
1:21.0	And I learned from it. Even though I failed failed it was still a step up.
1:24.0	Yeah.
1:25.0	He wasn't a step down because I learned something.
1:28.0	And I got more determined.
1:30.0	So I think that a lot of what people want today is based on what they think other people have and social media.
1:36.0	I think that's a lot of pressure for young people to be successful like immediately.
1:43.0	No one's successful that young.
1:45.0	I was successful young but I started playing tennis at four and I put in a decade
1:49.0	before I even like went pro.
1:52.0	So yes it was young but there was there was millions of hours of
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