Usain Bolt: The Failure That Changed Everything

You have to learn how to lose before you can learn how to win. You have to understand that you will fail. But when you fail, what do you learn from the failure? So every time I've lost, I've said, what did I do wrong? What do I need to improve?

Everybody who's a professional has talent. It's who works the hardest on their talent that will be the best. There's no way you're gonna intimidate me. All that matters is that when we line up and that gun goes, you better be ready. That is the voice of the greatest sprinter of all time and the fastest man on the planet, the great Hussein Bolt.

This was episode 300 of high performance and I couldn't help but cast my mind back to when Jake and I first sat outside the Team Ineos headquarters in Portsmouth back in November 2019 and We wondered whether anybody would want to listen to long conversations about how incredible people think. And this episode is number 300. That's not a figure either of us ever had in our head. When we wrote down our wish list of guests in that cafe, one name would have sat right at the top of it.

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