1. Interview with Dragon Boat World Champion and World Record Holder Marianne Tai!
Darwin's Theories of Awesomeness
Release Date: 09/30/2020
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Repetition Repetition Repetition - There's no shortcut to Success - Larry Cain 1984 Olympic Gold C1
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An interview with 1984 Olympic gold and silver medallist Larry Cain. Larry devised his own techniques of visualization, and epitomizes how talent alone is never enough. He discusses the other ingredients that contribute to success and how he applied these to his gold medal winning performance. Website: YouTube Channel: Apple Podcasts: Spotify: Facebook: Instagram: LinkedIn: Twitter: You can find Larry here!
info_outlineInterview with Dragon Boat World Champion and World Record Holder Marianne Tai!
- 1:45 - Autobiography
- Marianne gives her autobiography in 60 seconds.
- 3:05 - “The Bench”
- At a major race, her coach, Chris Edwards, benched her for the final and told her directly. She still supported the team but had mixed emotions as the team won a bronze medal without her.
- 7:32 - “The Talk”
- Marianne has the tough conversation with her coach about what she can do to improve, and gets some straight talk from Coach Chris. She decides to take the advice to heart and changes her approach.
- Don’t take days off. It’s important to have a purpose for the workouts.
- 10:18 - “National Team Tryouts”
- How did you move forward to trying out for the national team?
- Coach Chris sees her progress and in 2012, suggests that she tries out. She’d improved very quickly over a 3 year time period.
- Others are much faster, scoring as much as 20 secs faster on the time trial. It’s a bit intimidating, but held a brave face and resolved to represent her club and her coach well.
- There are 22 secs to make up. How will she do this?
- From Nov to May, she travels monthly to meet Coach Matt and makes it through several rounds of cuts, within the overall 30 women (24 are selected). All the candidates are warm and friendly,
- 19:15 - “The Call”
- Coach Chris calls and asks how she is, but Marianne hasn’t read the email yet. She reads the “heartbreaking” news.
- “It’s full on ... 2015.”
- 22:33 - “What did you change?”
- She supported the team. Other teammates noticed how supportive she was.
- She DOUBLED her training schedule!! Marianne took a 2nd job.
- She took the time to work with Matt and took overnight buses to Montreal for the training.
- 29:25 - “The hardest worker in the room”
- Cheryl Shannon: “You’re already on the team, the coach doesn’t know it yet.”
- 31:50 - “What’s the effect of coaching on your life?”
- This is made by Chris Edwards. She learned about leadership, being humble and how to push others..
- Marianne sought out advice from Olympic gold medallist Larry Cain … “Yeah you got something going on”
- 35:23 - “Leaders making leaders who make leaders. What did you develop this in yourself to help others become leaders?”
- I want to inspire women paddlers out there.
- “I will never say that I’m the strongest paddler. … When everyone is in the boat, everyone is the same.”
- “I am strong. I am capable. I am the hardest worker in the room.”
- 41:09 - “What did you change on the mental side?”
- “You needed a lot of failures to find your voice”
- “Shame became my mentor”
- “Fear became my best friend”
- 45:10 - “The satisfaction of making the team was better than winning gold.”
- “What matters is my journey, my process to win those gold medals”
- 48:49 - “The World Record”
- “Oh we’re going for it, we’re going for it, this is going to hurt.”
- “300 WATTS!!!”
- 55:00 - “Time slows down”
- 58:50 - “The Zone”
- Marianne explains how to get into the zone.
You can find Marianne here:
https://www.instagram.com/mariannetai/