
What Athletes Know About Nerves
What if the trick to calming our nerves isn’t calming our nerves at all? Olympic athletes inspired Simon to look at it a different way.

Taught by
Simon Sinek
Lessons
1 lessons
Format
Self-paced video
What You'll Learn
Reframe your nerves as excitement. Make it about the opportunity to share, rather than the possibility of failure.
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Meet Your Instructor

Simon Sinek
Eternal Optimist
Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Simon has devoted his professional life to help advance a vision of the world that does not yet exist; a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are, and end the day fulfilled by the work they do.
A trained ethnographer, Simon is fascinated by the people and organizations that make the greatest and longest-lasting impact. Over the years, he has discovered some remarkable patterns about how they think, act, and communicate, and also the environments in which people operate at their natural best.
Simon may be best known for his TED Talk on the concept of WHY, which has been viewed over 60 million times, and his video on millennials in the workplace—which reached 80 million views in its first week and has gone on to be seen hundreds of millions of times.
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