Adam Peaty: Overcoming My Darkest Moment, Nearly Quitting Swimming & Learning from Gordon Ramsay (E318)
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Before we get started, let me tell you, you can now listen to high performance ad free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. I touched a wall, my goggles were filled with tears. I could just feel my soul screaming for help. And I said to myself, I don't want to do this anymore.
Yes, we have our happiness and we have our long-term and short-term gratification and whatever that looks like. It's all about peace. That's the thing that matters. The constant effort of human excellence is a high price.
And what happens if I get up on a Monday morning and I'm done like I'm tired because we still need to find a way through that to be able to win. That was the voice of six-time Olympic medalist Adam Peaty who joins us today on high performance. I'm Jake Humphrey and along with Damien Hughes, we explore Explore the experiences and the mindsets behind some of the world's most fascinating people. Now on paper, Adam is an incredible athlete with three Olympic golds and three Olympic silvers to his name.
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