Apolo Ohno
CEO, Olympic Mountain. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Apolo Anton Ohno is an eight-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian in history, as well as a New York Times bestselling author. Following his skating career, he transitioned into entrepreneurship and venture capital, investing in health, longevity, and technology.
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1said about them ↓ Everything Apolo Ohno said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Apolo Ohno: Esports will probably become an Olympic sport
“Like, esports will probably become an Olympic sport at some point.”
Ohno: 24/7 crypto traders live no better than 18-hour shift workers
“If you're a trader in crypto, and it requires you to be so glued to your devices all the time, and if you can't disengage for periods, you're actually no better off than the guy who's working 18 hour shifts. Like, you're exactly the same. Your number on the sc…”
Apolo Ohno: Extreme success is impossible to achieve with a balanced life
“From my personal view, I don't think it's possible.”
Ohno: Obsession is the common denominator across all top performers
“I think in terms of sheer performance when it comes to sport or other tasks, Everyone has the same common trait, which is obsession.”
Ohno: Olympic athletes fail Navy SEAL training due to strict psychological limits
“By the way, there's been many Olympic athletes who have actually gone on to try to become Navy SEALs, for example, and they can't, and it's not because they don't have the genetic ability. It's just because they weren't willing to go to those. Maybe perhaps it…”
Ohno: NBC should have hired creators over investing in Snapchat
“And I thought it was like, well, why would they just give the money to a public company versus going directly to the creators themselves? The top, top 50 creators in the world, right? Speak different languages and saying, we're going to give you all access rig…”
Ohno: The Olympics will never become decentralized or fan-controlled
“I mean, it's never gonna happen for the Olympics, right? That's such a centralized, controlled entity.”
Ohno: USOPC operates on a loop of medals driving sponsorship revenue
“As a business, like if you take the USOC, the USOPC, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, their business model is to generate medals which then in turn attract sponsors so that they can continue their jobs and have trickle-down effect to supply …”
Apolo Ohno: Olympic athletes do not own rights to their competition moments
“The challenge that we had that I ran into very quickly was that the athletes actually don't own the rights. To their own shit.”
Ohno: Web3 culture creates toxic FOMO by signaling non-participants are inferior
“We do buy into the external signaling of society telling us what we should have, what you should be doing, which DAO you should be participating in, which new token launch you should have, which new game you should be participating in, which new play to earn, …”
Ohno: A smarter, predictable racing strategy could have doubled my career results
“Your actual results could have been two X of what they ever were. Had you been a smarter, more predictable athlete?”
Ohno: Cutting off unproductive peers was necessary to make the Olympic team
“Had I not done that, I, we wouldn't even be having this conversation today, because I don't believe I would even have made that team.”
Ohno: Conditioned internal self-talk triggers physical and biochemical responses in athletes
“There's certain words, depending on how they are emotionally tied to us at a young age, or what they mean or perceive, or allow us to perceive or react to, those can trigger certain elements and emotions in our body. And so if you're able to use certain words …”
Ohno: Trying too hard and fighting the ice actually decreases top speed
“So there's a fine line between trying way too hard and not trying enough. And it requires a level of relaxation that almost feels easy at its highest speeds and then trying so hard and fighting and fighting against the other athletes and fighting against yours…”
Ohno: Usain Bolt joked before races to prime a hyper-reactive physical state
“Usain Bolt is my favorite example. Here you have one of the world's greatest track and field athletes of all time preparing for a moment in front of 80,000 screaming fans on the Olympic stage, a billion people watching. And this guy's joking around towards cam…”
Ohno: Disregard past mistakes unless they provide actionable racing lessons
“What happened before doesn't matter unless it's insight, learning lesson, or information about how you're going to race moving forward. If it's not in that realm, it's disregarded. It's completely out.”
Ohno: Clutch athletes demand final plays because they believe they dictate outcomes
“And I think that that's the belief and confidence in alpha that comes with, if there's anyone going to be responsible for the outcome of this, I believe I can dictate that outcome.”
Ohno: I intentionally trained to exhaustion to dominate teammates while physically weakened
“Even in my own team, I would, you know, the level of standard that I had for myself was that I would train more than they would. I would be more tired the next morning when we woke up and when we got to the ice rink, I expected that I could still dominate them…”
Apolo Ohno: Humans are still driven by basic Neanderthal ego desires
“Because humans are still operating in the same kind of Neanderthal, like, ego-based, still chasing the same thing. And I think we like to hide behind this idea that we're here for maybe a greater purpose and cause. And I do believe that is the case, like, if y…”
Ohno: Combining innate predisposition and training yields the greatest work ethic
“I'm sure that there's some encoding of some DNA at some kind of a hard wiring level that enables you or your previous experiences that you've inherited. I would bet on that. I also believe it can be trained. It's obviously much different, right? So if your nat…”
Ohno: Short track skating's volatility yields different winners each race
“So you can run the same race several times over in short track and probably get several different winners just because of the different strategies and techniques associated. You probably will have the same type of individuals in the final, but you can run it s…”
Ohno: I won the US world team trials after seven months' training
“Within, I think, seven, little over seven months, I went from Essentially becoming unknown to anyone in the world cup circuit, international circuit, or even the U S circuit to then going to the world team trials, winning the competition, which was very strang…”
Ohno: Subconsciously Thrived on Hitting Rock Bottom to Make Comebacks
“I've had my bouts with self sabotage almost my entire career as an athlete. And even I think post career as a human. And these are probably deeper psychological kind of traits and micro traumas that I think we all deal with on a day to day basis as we grow as …”
Ohno: I went from first place to dead last within one year
“And so I arrived at the 1998 Olympic trials. No longer overweight, but mentally going into the competition thinking that I wasn't going to make the team, and so within one year, I went from first place, which was being at the top of the mountain, to finishing …”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | CEO, Olympic Mountain | 1 | 18 | 100% 3/3 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | CEO, Olympic Mountain | 1 | 8 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |