Bode Miller: Skiing as Self-Expression, Legacy, and the Courage to Persevere | WTP with Mikaela Ep. 8

Is there something that you feel like people have... misunderstood or currently misunderstand about you that you would like if you could just like Put information into the world and just have people get it Would there be one thing?

Yeah, there's a lot of things I feel I feel like I've generally been pretty misunderstood most You know, I think I have a pretty unique approach to why I do things.

The why has always been much more important than I think people think.

I think a lot of my the interpretation of actions and stuff seem kind of impulsive or, you know, whatever is driven by other motivation.

It's sort of an undercurrent of everyone's life.

And I think that's probably one of the most commonly misunderstood things.

If you were to pick a thousand people, probably are.

We can see things they do and we could.

But probably we'd be wrong about most of the why of that.

So, I mean, I think that's that's probably it.

I know that's pretty vague, but no, no.

We can get into that.

Yeah, the why of why I communicated with my family the way I did and why I wanted to be a ski racer and sort of all that stuff.

I don't think my family really understood why I wanted to do what I wanted to do.

So I think it's still pretty active at this point.

All right.

Well, let's get into some of those whys.

You are... one of the most well-rounded athletes in the history of our sport.

You grew up playing soccer and tennis, skiing, golf.

You attempted to qualify for the US Open at one point.

What brought you to skiing above other sports?

I mean, from a young age, it was the expression part of it.

There was a bunch of things that were unique about skiing that I liked, but ultimately what allowed me to stay with it was the expression.

I could really be myself as purely as I possibly could, more so than I could in school or college.

doing work or with my family or playing soccer or tennis.