Katie Taylor
Irish professional boxer; Olympic champion 2012
There are days when I wake up and don't want to move, but you must show up!
When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
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In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life?
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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
Craft & work
You know, as Olympians, you set four years to build up to this moment. And then, after it's over, you're kind of lost in a way. You don't really know what to do. You don't know where to go. You don't know who to talk to. And a lot of us do suffer from depression.
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Brian Eno
Composer, record producer and visual artist
My favorite method is stopping everything for a moment. It’s amazing how difficult I find it these days to simply sit quietly.
Cathy Freeman
Australian sprinter, 1990–2003
I was really vulnerable right before I left the coach, and I said to him, 'Are you still going to love me if I don't win this thing?'
Ahmed Zewail
Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999
Arriving in the States, I had the feeling of being thrown into an ocean. The ocean was full of knowledge, culture, and opportunities, and the choice was clear: I could either learn to swim or sink. The culture was foreign, the language was difficult, but my hopes were high. I did not speak or write English fluently, and I did not know much about western culture in general, or American culture in particular.
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Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 1999
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View profile →One thing that I went through and I was able to understand is: It's OK to not be OK. Right? Like nobody's perfect.
I think it's something that nobody's really talked about in the past because we're supposed to be this big, macho, strong person that has no weaknesses. You know, we're supposed to be perfect.
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