The Olympic Spirit: Faster, Higher, Stronger
Becoming Your Best | The Principles of Highly Successful Leaders · Nick Palkowski
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Show Notes
As Beijing hosts the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, feeling the Olympic spirit hovering around is inevitable. The athletes who spend four years training to compete for a couple of minutes, in some cases just seconds, are, at minimum, inspiring.
The phrase "Citius, Altius, Fortius" pronounced by the Dominican priest Henri Didon before a school competition in 1881 was adopted by the games and slowly but surely, turned into an Olympic symbol, just like the Olympic flame and the Olympic rings. Citius, Altius, Fortius; faster, higher, stronger. The phrase sums up the Olympic spirit, and it is as inspiring as the athletes themselves. It pushes us to always give our best, work consciously and consistently to achieve our goals, and never surrender.
Today's episode is about pouring the Olympic spirit into our personal and professional lives. We travel back to 2002 when the Tabernacle Choir performed John Williams' "Call of the champions" during the Winter Olympics to listen to its inspiring sound and take a moment to nurture our most profound desires of becoming our best. We also go through three of the most significant lessons we can learn from the Olympics and explore how to translate them into our lives. In addition, we remember two stories from the Olympic Games, Derek Redmond's heartbreaking ending in 1992 in Barcelona, and one of the greatest swimming comebacks of all time in Beijing, in 2008, when the US team conquered gold in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.
Tune in to Episode 316 and let the deep desire of overcoming obstacles and working every day to be your best version invade your life.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- What can "Citius, Altius, Fortius" represent in our lives (4:03)
- Tabernacle Choir plays John Williams' "Call of the champions" (5:57)
- The three main lessons we can get from the Olympics (11:10)
- The story of Derek Redmond's 400 meters race (15:10)
- Jason Lezak and the greatest swimming comebacks of all time (19:18)
Resources:
- The Tabernacle Choir's Olympic Opening Ceremony Connection
- Book: Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers: The Story of Success
- Derek Redmond's Emotional Olympic Story - Barcelona 1992 Olympics
- Beijing 2008 - The greatest swimming comeback of all time?
- Inspirational Quote - Theodore Roosevelt
Becoming Your Best Resources:
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