The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal Steve Solomon: Unpacking the journey, mindset and habits to becoming 2x Olympic athlete + critical painful learning from missing 2016 olympics by 4/100th of a second!
Welcome to episode #61 with Steve Solomon! Here are 5 key takeaways that I think you will learn from this episode today:
- Steve's advice to parents with kids showing athletic potential (context: Steve didn't consider Athletics seriously till age
- Critical learning from not qualifying for the 2016 Olympics by 4/100th of a second that's now made him a better athlete
- Why sport is the perfect vehicle to find yourself and develop
- Dealing with negative thoughts: Steve breaks down the psychology behind managing the lizard brain pre and during races
- How to Become your best self and why we should all have Olympic like goals.
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TIMESTAMPS
03:42 - Steve’s quick facts
05:35 - High Flyer recognition
07:20 - Sunrise memories in Sydney
08:05 - Spark to follow Athletics
11:20 - Didn’t consider sport seriously
12:50 - Advice to kids with potential in sport
14:15 - posters on the wall growing up
15:50 - Wallabies v Springbooks in Rugby
16:20 - Success in professional sport
17:44 - Learning from missing out on Olympics by 4/100th of a second
21:40 - How to manage negative thoughts
29:15 - Systems and habits in the days before competition
33:00 - Periodising through the year: How he used the time between waking up and going to bed
35:25 - Difference in athletics between US and Australia
39:45 - Being the underdog in Australia
41:20 - stay amateur for as long as possible
46:40 - How the legendary survive the test of time
50:20 - The process, the first 5k and you get better at managing, not the task getting easier
54:20 - Sport being the vehicle for finding yourself
58:45 - final sprint
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