Featuring:
Apolo Ohno, former Olympic Speed Skater (8 Time Olympic Medalist)
Key Takeaways
- The most important skills are around the ways that you tackle challenges and create resiliency through the hard times in your sport
- It's important to prepare yourself for environments that are unfamiliar to you so that you can still perform in those situations.
- Force your brain to deal with unforeseen circumstances.
- Outside of sports you can't exercise physical dominance so these life skills are going to transfer beyond your athletic career - grit, resilience, consistency of effort, adaption to new environments, how to deal with uncertainty, etc.
Things to Think About
- What's something you're uncomfortable doing?
- How do you react when you're uncomfortable?
- How can learning to adapt or perform in uncomfortable environments help you in sports? What about in life?
Ways to Practice
- Pick something within your sport that you're not as good at. Decide how you're going to practice that this week.
- Pick something outside of your sport that you're uncomfortable doing and commit to doing it this week.
Watch more content from Apolo Ohno on P/ATH Sports: Dealing with failure
P/ATH Sports, founded by Cassidy Lichtman, is a non-profit organization that believes that healing the divisions in our society in the long run depends on teaching young people new skills around empathy, equity and empowerment. P/ATH offers free content featuring some of the most successful athletes and coaches across sports using their experience to teach lessons around how to build mindset skills, develop great team culture, break out of the boxes we get put in and how the most valuable life lessons we learn in sports can transfer off the court or field.
