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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Olympic Games comes up
The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
- ▶ 41:29 Dr. Gio Valiante It's like when Michelle Kwan, ah, in the Olympics, lost the gold medal to Tara Lipinski.
The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
- ▶ 2:00:14 Shane Parrish So in October of 1979, just three weeks after Presidential Park's assassination, the mayor of Seoul formally announced that the city would bid for the 1988 Olympics. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:17:05 Shane Parrish Because in the end, after all the highways and the ships and the cars and the billions of dollars and the political disasters and the cattle drives across the DMZ, after the Olympics and after the desert and after the shipyard and after…
The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight
- ▶ 30:39 Shane Parrish In 1972, a Yale-educated American named Frank Shorter won the Olympic marathon in Munich.
Ryan Holiday: How to Win the War with Yourself
- ▶ 31:53 Ryan Holiday This is, I think, why the Olympics are this sort of enduring thing.
- ▶ 1:03:15 Shane Parrish And there was this video, I think it was from the Olympics post-twenty, I forget what year it was, but this guy is swimming and he looks over at his competitor and it ends up distracting him just enough that he loses the race. 2 times in the scene
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:57:05 Tom Gaynor I mean, I feel like, uh, remember the movie chariots of fire and Eric little, the runner, and he was a person of deep faith and the Olympics got scheduled such that his race was on Sunday and his sister who shared his faith and his…
Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- ▶ 42:06 Todd Herman Think about an Alpine skier who's standing at the top of a mountain that looks like it's a vertical cliff and it's in the Olympics.
Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work
- ▶ 47:10 Aaron Dignan So if you try to describe how the world works or the political situation or how to win the Olympics from one perspective, you're going to fail.
#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize
- ▶ 7:39 Apolo Ohno Uh, I saw the sport on television when I was 12 years old with my father watching the Olympic Games.
- ▶ 9:28 Shane Parrish Um, but then there was a lot of self-sabotage and hiccups between there and the Olympics. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:28 Shane Parrish It's, it's like the Olympics wasn't enough.
- ▶ 30:22 Apolo Ohno They had bought their tickets already to go to the Olympic Games. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:25 Apolo Ohno So when I was 15, uh, at the Olympic training center, after the Olympics had occurred and after I had showed up in kind of better shape, we had hired an assistant coach and a sports psychologist in the same role.
#54 Jason Fried: Doing the Enough Thing
- ▶ 29:48 Jason Fried And after college, I couldn't, I wasn't good enough to go to the Olympics.
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 1:58:03 Adam Robinson After all, you win the Olympic gold medal in high jump, right, by doing that, right?
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 50:02 Pedro Domingos Uh, but, but we still have people doing, you know, in the Olympics, what you have is people competing against each other to see who can do, you know, whatever a hundred meters faster or, or the marathon fastest.