Michael Johnson: The Mind That Never Settled For Second

I got more speed in my little finger than most people have in their whole body. And I was just born that way. It's not easy to become Olympic champion. It's not easy to become the best in the world. It's not easy to even become a professional.

Not everybody can have it. When I had my stroke, it was a crazy experience. Left side, arm, fingers, leg, barely can move them. I'm scared to death. We are just like, what is happening?

That is the voice of the Olympic legend Michael Johnson. And even now, that clarity and that confidence stops you in your tracks, doesn't it? Now I wasn't there for this conversation, that was done with Jake, but I watched it and I wished that it was, because Michael Johnson didn't just run differently to everyone else. He thought differently as well. He understood himself on a level that most of us spend our entire lives trying to reach, and in my experience, that is always where greatness begins.

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