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EPISODE · Feb 20, 2026 · 7 MIN

Destroy Your Need To Win To Become Unstoppable | Mikaela Shiffrin

from The Daily Motivation · host Lewis Howes, Mikaela Shiffrin

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1889DMMikaela Shiffrin is the most decorated alpine skier in World Cup history. Over 100 wins. Youngest slalom gold medalist ever. More than a decade at the absolute top.And she's still in disbelief about all of it.The moment that stopped me: when she thinks "I want to win," she never wins. Other athletes can win just by wanting it badly enough. For her, wanting to win is the kiss of death.So what does she think about instead? Making really good turns. That's her entire philosophy. She even calls it boring. But that boring focus built the greatest skiing career in history.She figured this out at age eight, watching her idol Bode Miller get torn apart after disappointing Olympic performances. She saw how pressure and public opinion crushed even the greatest athletes. Right then, she decided: focus on the craft, ignore the glory.That decision protected her from the thing that destroys most champions—believing their own hype.Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Mikaela Shiffrin has won more World Cup races than any alpine skier in history, and she has a confession: when she thinks about winning, she never wins. She reveals the boring philosophy that kept her at the top for 12 years, and why watching her childhood hero crumble under Olympic pressure taught her to completely redefine success.

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