Apolo Ohno shares his most valuable lessons for overcoming challenges with resilience, creativity, and purpose. In speed skating, a hard pivot is an aggressive shift of direction that requires courage, practice, and split-second timing. For Apolo Ohno, the most frightening hard pivot of his life didn’t happen on the ice―but rather, when he had to hang up his skates for good. “After my final Olympics, I felt confused, vulnerable, and adrift without purpose,” he says. “Yet that’s when I realized my experiences had given me something much more valuable than medals and memories. I had tools I could use to shift my life in a new direction―and most importantly, these were tools anyone could benefit from.”...
Publisher: Sounds True (February 22, 2022) Pages: 160 pages ISBN-10: 168364932X ISBN-13: 978-1683649328 ASIN: B096NGFSLZ
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Apolo Anton Ohno earned eight Olympic medals in speed skating and became the most decorated US Winter Olympian of all time―a title he still holds. Today as a cross-industry entrepreneur, successful sports broadcaster, television personality, and New York Times bestselling author, he continually adapts his performance mindset and harnesses his experiences to educate and inspire others.