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Diane Modahl

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2020-02-03

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1. “Two things the first is having a crystal clear goal, and you said it there really having a defined reason, a purpose that you and that I was driven towards and wanting to make a difference is actually the catalyst that makes the whole difference as an athlete a lot of us aspire to be the best in the world. That's finite. There's a ranking system. You can rank yourself against what other athletes in your distance are doing. So it allows you to measure yourself against that defined ranking world ranking in business without a goal. What are you striving for? The value adding value to myself as an individual every single day. Because what we can lose and get wrapped up in is the bottom line.”

   2020-02-03 · The Diary of a CEO · E46: Diane Modahl - Doping, Defeat and Determination · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “I was the opposite, so the minute somebody said to me If you knuckle down, if you work hard and your work ethic surpasses anything else that your potential tells me you've got, you could be pretty good at this. And that was, I suppose, the direction and focus I needed. And I remember going into arenas packed with eighty thousand spectators, world championships, Olympic Games, European championships, Commonwealth Games, And loving it. It was like I was walking into my living room. Er the louder the crowd got, the more pressure where I was expected to win or do well, I lapped that up. I loved it. I loved it.”

   2020-02-03 · The Diary of a CEO · E46: Diane Modahl - Doping, Defeat and Determination · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “No, I was having fun, and what did good look like at that stage? Because I wasn't always winning. There were lots of people in school who were quicker than me, could jump higher than me. I couldn't hurdle. It was rubbish at things like that, trampolining. I mean, I can't even do a somersault for goodness sake, but I would try because it was fun. It was good fun. So that Olympic dream was born out of in many ways just an opportunity to have fun and do something that, yeah, I was enjoying, I suppose.”

   2020-02-03 · The Diary of a CEO · E46: Diane Modahl - Doping, Defeat and Determination · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

4. “What about you Yes, yeah. Well, that's years of prep. Away, but it's planted initially just from the fact that you might have a dream. So in my case, I was reasonably decent at running. I could run. I was rubbish at school. I was really poor. I was not academic at all. And when everyone else was saying, oh Pierre, do we have to go outside? It's raining. I'd be the one changed. Plimsels on, shorts on, you know, t-shirt on, whatever we were wearing. And I'd be doing the hockey, the high jump, the cross country. I wasn't good at all of those things.”

   2020-02-03 · The Diary of a CEO · E46: Diane Modahl - Doping, Defeat and Determination · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT