Apolo Anton Ohno
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Apolo Anton Ohno
@ApoloOhno
8X Olympic Medalist | Fortune 500 Keynote Speaker | NYT Bestselling Author | Embrace Change, Find Purpose, Show Up Fully
Global Katılım Temmuz 2009
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I think David Senra is an incredibly talented podcaster and I have tremendous respect for his commitment to the craft.
That said, successful entrepreneurship isn’t by definition a proxy for wisdom. Just because someone is obscenely wealthy or powerful doesn’t mean we should take their ludicrous galaxy brain takes seriously.
Sure, things like fear and self-doubt unnecessarily interfere with action and momentum. And many people would indeed benefit from cultivating a proclivity for decisiveness.
But promoting the idea that introspection is a problematic artifact of modernity we’d all be better off without is patently wrong, horrible on its face, and arguably pathological.
Not only does the unexamined life devoid of self-reflection detach one’s self from things like accountability and empathy, as Socrates said it’s actually not worth living.
David Senra@davidsenra
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
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It’s not the years in your life, it’s the life in your years.
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Thank you to all of the powerful Team USA athletes who poured their hearts out. Reminding us of how strong we can be and that we are all on One Team! 🇺🇸🦾🎯🥇🇺🇸🙏🏼🙌🪄🎯🥇
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Grazie, @milanocortina26. ✨ Here's to an incredible #WinterOlympics and #WinterParalympics full of moments, milestones, and memories.
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Total dominance from Team USA hockey in the 2026 Olympics and Paralympics 🤯🇺🇸
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I am incredibly inspired by our amazing Women’s, Men’s, and Paralympic Hockey team wins at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. If you feel sluggish or lazy - go read up on some of these powerful stories that make them real life heroes. You’ll suit up asap. 🦾🎯🥇🇺🇸🪄🙏🏼🙌🥇
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MVP from start to finish. 🇺🇸
Declan Farmer has been named tournament MVP for the second consecutive #WinterParalympics.
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USA Hockey heard it was time for some spring cleaning. 🧹🦅
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A helluva sweep baby! Womens, Men’s, and Paralympic hockey!! 🏒 🥇🥇🥇🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Wallace performing under all the pressure. One team! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Men’s Paralympic Gold Medal Game rn let’s gooooo! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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This is complete madness! So incredibly difficult to do with no upper limbs. I thought he had his arms behind his back at first…mind blown
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