The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize

Aug 18, 2020

01:16:23

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Apolo Ohno

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Strategy Is Very Important In Athletes

01:50

Is it Mental versus Physical?

01:52

How Do You Recognize When You Lose Control?

01:27

What I Learned From My Father

01:03

Introduction

4min

What I Learned From My Father

2min

Short Track Speed Skating - Is It Learned?

3min

How Did You Learn How to Speed Skate?

2min

I'm a Young, Punk Kid, and I Was a U. S. National Champion.

4min

Strategy Is Very Important in Athletes

3min

You Don't Want to Go to Lake Placid?

4min

Is That Where You Told You Were Talented?

2min

Is It Just a Better Strategy?

2min

10.

The Olympic Season

2min

11.

I'm a Tenagor Lake, I've Never Trained Before.

3min

12.

I Did Not Make the Team, but I Didn't Apply Myself

5min

13.

I'm Going to Stick to My Promise

3min

14.

Is It Possible to Achieve Extreme Success?

2min

15.

I Don't Think It's Possible to Live a Balanced Life

2min

16.

How Do You Train Your Mind?

3min

17.

The Mind Is the Most Powerful Tool of All

2min

18.

How Do You Recognize When You Lose Control?

4min

19.

Is It Mental Versus Physical?

6min

20.

The Prerequisite to a Successful Olympic Team

2min

21.

Do You Want to Compete in the Olympics?

5min

22.

Do Not Ask Whether You Will Win or Lose

2min

23.

You Want a Gold in Two Thousand Two Now?

2min

24.

The Source of What Drives You

4min

25.

Living a Fulfilled Life

2min

26.

The Knowledge Project Podcast

1min

8x Olympic medalist and short-track speed skating legend, Apolo Ohno chats about his origin story, recovering from multiple failures, mental training, confidence, and leaving it all on the ice.

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