Thoughts on winning inspired by Sumo Week 1 and 3x Olympic gold medalist

all right so hopefully that was interesting for you um it was a pretty good recap of the first week i want to try to do something that was really quick uh but it gave you a lot of information so thank you very much frank and helen to put that together for you um But they ended with some really important ideas because, again, sumo, I think there are a lot of things that are not safe for the athletes.

But let's take away all these different things like being on an elevated clay stage, minimal cushions, and all that stuff.

So say it was perfectly safe and everything was totally fine, then you like how does someone win right so unfortunately once you get to the highest level like yokozuna then like they said at the end you either win or retire so that can become like a real heavy mental pressure that uh you can be uh just like overwhelmed by because i think every sumo competitor wants to become a yokozuna but then Once they reach that pinnacle, then, uh, like the pressure becomes like immense.

So it's like, you'll have people who, who, um, like they're there and they're only Yokozuna for a short amount of time.

And then they have to retire.

Like, um, gave me the example for those of you who've been watching, uh, for a long time, uh, Kisa no Sato, he wasn't, uh, uh, Yokozuna for very long before he retired.

because he just wasn't performing and the pressure was too much.

So sometimes I feel like they promote some people to Yokozuna too quickly.

I think also especially they lost a couple and uh they i felt like they will the association wanted to just get someone in there so i kind of felt like hoshido wasn't quite ready for it but they they thrust him up there because um he's still a great competitor um but yeah he just once he's there he hasn't been uh performing like they expect but with that being said how does one like navigate that whole idea of pressure.

Sure, there's definitely outside pressure, but a lot of times the way we perceive that pressure is how ultimately it affects us, right? So if we perceive it as pressure, as something negative, then our body will react in that way.

But if we can try to convert it to something that's less negative, then a lot of times we can perform very well.

And I think what we're saying with the sumo idea, then we have the idea of Hakuho.

So Hakuho was, I think, still like the very best to ever do sumo.

And so even though at a Yokozuna level, if he was participating in the tournament, chances are he was going to win.

It'd be really cool to get an interview with him on his mindset and all, but since I don't have that, there was a recent interview with three-time Olympic gold medalist Aileen Gu.

Basically, she had a pretty quick soundbite that I think you can learn from or maybe get some inspiration from, so I'm going to play that right now.

It's just like 30 seconds.

Hopefully this 30 seconds doesn't get this video pulled down.

It was a video from a different podcast that she was on.

Hopefully they don't try to copyright strike me or whatever, but okay, here we go.