May 10, 2020
Did you know that high stress is the doorway to high
performance? Most people never experience the true beauty of stress
and the gifts that it brings because they don't want to sit in
discomfort.
But all professional athletes, successful businessmen, and
world-leading experts, have experienced, often for prolonged
periods of times, and utilised high stress and pain to their
advantage. And Olympic Gold Medallist Natalie Cook is no
different.
Nat won Olympic Gold at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in Beach
Volleyball. And she has received the Order of Australia Medal, and
has been inducted in both the Volleyball Hall of Fame AND
Australian Sporting Hall of Fame.
This is the unique story and insights into living life as a high
performance athlete to become part of the top 1% in the world.
Timestamps:
1:54 - Early childhood of an Olympic Gold Medalist
13:23 - Finding the calling to beach volleyball for Natalie
Cook
19:17 - The hardships of being a professional athlete & competing
at a high level
21:26 - Managing ego as a professional athlete and her experience
playing while having an injury
31:34 - The worst nightmare of any athlete
48:34 - Running a business after retirement
57:34 - How to manage pressure in order to perform