Champion Mindset - 100% Goal Commitment - Glenn Mills - 1980 Olympic Team Interview - Ep. 14

"And I had so over prepared for the high school state meet that I ended up making the Olympic team."

An interview with Glenn Mills, making the 1980 Olympic team and now runs the wildly successful platform, GoSwim.TV.

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4:08 - Glenn talks about how the death of his brother to cancer lit a fire inside of him to train hard and win the high school state championship in his brothers' honor.

"I remember, Kyle died on a Thursday, and on Friday, I went to practice, I always swam in lane five, and the pool went from lane one to lane six, the slowest to the fastest. And at this point, I was in lane five. I showed up on Friday. And of course, everybody knew and everybody was quiet. And I stood behind lane six, nobody said anything. And so I just went right to the fastest lane in the pool. And from that day forward, I was committed to accomplishing that goal to honor that, that goal that I had set out for my brother."

"I would go to the pool, and I would try to hurt myself as much as I could physically. Not in a bad way. Not not, it was it was I would train as hard as I could to induce as much pain because the more physical pain that I that I had, the less emotional pain that I had."

"And I had so over prepared for the high school state meet that I ended up making the Olympic team. "

"There's so much more inside of everyone that we don't, we don't know who we can be, until we've made the decision that we were going to put everything into this task for this goal. And if you completely 100% commit yourself to something, all aspects of your life to that specific goal, you're probably going to do better than then you thought you could."

9:04 - Glenn talks about what separates the truly elite from others.

"There's a consistent and focus towards the end result. And each day is a piece of the process, that there's a patience about the process and a consistency to the process."

"... If that's what your goal is, you have to have this all consuming."

"it is the daily grind, as they say, and you have to be committed to the process. "

"Jesse Owens said and reminded us all. It's not the Olympics that make the Olympian it's the preparation. So everything is about the preparation. It's not about that day. It's about the years before, and that's really great athletes understand."

11:56 - Glenn talks about the difference between process and outcome. He talks about the process of creating excellent swimmers and athletes.

14:21 - Glenn has coached numerous outstanding athletes, including Jeff Rouse and Aaron Peirsol, both world record holders who swim differently. What are the commonalities amongst greatness?

17:00 - The importance of self-awareness and how he helps others to learn effectively.

18:09 - Glenn has a fascinating approach to coaching top Olympians - the Power of Asking Questions.

19:12 - Coaching Allison Schmitt and Michael Phelps, and how he approaches giving advice to such legendary athletes.

"I said, there is no way I'm telling you anything about your stroke. Because I would be the guy that messed her up by giving her advice"

Allison's response: "No one has ever not given me advice before."

22:22 - Filming MICHAEL PHELPS!

"And I would say, you know, this is what I noticed. They weren't asking me because oh, here's this, you know, this great guy, they they sought, they sought anything from anyone that could potentially make him a little faster. They were so open to suggestions, because they might have overlooked something that somebody else might see. And so it was it was one of the most fascinating things that he was the greatest swimmer in the history of the world, asking, What do you see? "

25:19 - Glenn talks about Goswim.tv and the amazing developments they're achieving.

29:32 - The disappointment of the US boycotting the Moscow Olympics.

37:01 - Excellence, values and focus - "There's integrity of work ... there's an honesty in work"

39:30 - Selected Pain vs. Forced Pain.

41:08 - "You have to stop feeling sorry for yourself at some point and just get back to work."

42:11 - How Glenn looks at helping athletes gain self-awareness.

46:15 - The amazing work at GoSwim.tv and the endless pool.