Overcome Your Fears Like a Champion
It does not matter what’s your job, at what stage you are, what’s your success ratio, it’s going to happen. Like a Titanic, you’ll meet your iceberg, and I want you to be ready for it.
Unpredictable incidents, circumstances, people, setbacks will happen to you. It can be very different, and in a field, you’ll never guess. You might lose all of your money to a rookie poker player with a chain of incredibly unpredictable events, get hit by a car, or become one of the deadliest strikers in football without having any visible strengths in the game by your placement.
What would or would not happen to you or if you were or weren’t in a particular place/situation? The deadly striker Thomas Müller has a sense of unpredictability. He feels where the ball will end up and scores a lot of goals with that skill. Thomas uses it all the time, and in 2014, he was ranked the fifth-best footballer in the world by The Guardian.
If unpredictable events are good for you, then great, but what if they are not? How you react is the key, as I’m sure that 10% is what happens to you and 90% is how you respond to it (read it somewhere). Coming back from an unpredictable negative experience/situation is what makes the individual exceptional. These are the people who create motivational stories and change the world, sports, and way of thinking.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist in snowboarding halfpipe Shaun White crashed on a training run in New Zealand in October while doing a double cork 1440. He needed 62 stitches and also suffered a pulmonary lung contusion. He did not recognize himself in the mirror, still had stitches in his tongue, and was slurring his speech when he decided to get back on the board. He made it to the Olympic team fourth time with a win at the Toyota Grand Prix with a perfect 100 on the contest’s very last run. He won gold medals back in 2006, 2010, and had a devastating loss at Sochi in 2014.
2018, Pyeongchang, South Korea
White hit a massive frontside double cork 1440 for the first time; two off-axis flips with four spins before hitting a cab double cork 1440, the trick he had crashed on. As the tricks are dangerous, he didn’t practice them in combination before the competition. That was a phenomenal return after eight years, and the key is that he did the same trick which injured him in New Zealand. Scored 97.75 points landed him in the first place.
White overcame his fear of what could happen if it went wrong.
What about you? Is there a new salesperson in the office that crashes your numbers? Is your startup slowly departing? Do you think your new musical ideas are terrible or that your content is unreadable? It’s always tricky when you’ve done something remarkable or achieved results that you’ve never seen before, and something brings you back to Earth. If you bounce back, you’ll fly, so do shit!
Go there and prove you’re the champion and hit your double cork 1440. I’m sure you’ll succeed.
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