Episode #52
The Mindset That Took Edose Ibadin From Failure to the Olympics
Send us Fan Mail Edose Ibadin missed the Tokyo Olympics. After more than a decade of training, improving and chasing the highest level of his sport, the thing he feared finally happened. He failed. And strangely enough, that failure gave him something he didn't have before. Freedom. Edose is an 800-meter Olympian for Team Nigeria and a mindset coach, but what interested me most about his story wasn't that he eventually made the Olympics. It was how long he had to keep believing before there was enough evidence to prove that belief was justified. Coming out of high school, he wasn't the best runner in the country. His progress wasn't some overnight explosion. It was a slow build. He kept getting better. He kept showing up. And when he finally experienced the failure he'd spent years trying to avoid, he realized something important: he survived it. That changed the way he chased success. In this conversation, Maurice, Edose and I talk about self-belief, discipline, fear of failure, the way athletes speak to themselves, comparison, coaching, social media, success after sports and why some incredibly talented people never find out what they're truly capable of. We also get into something I think extends far beyond athletics. Staying in the game. We're surrounded by other people's progress now. Somebody is younger than you, faster than you, richer than you, further along than you or seemingly accomplishing in two years what you've spent ten years trying to do. It's incredibly easy to mistake someone else's timeline for evidence that yours isn't working. Edose's career challenges that idea. He talks about learning to respect his own ability instead of constantly measuring himself against everyone else's. About becoming his own biggest fan when nobody else was around to clap. About understanding that progress doesn't have to be dramatic to still be progress. And eventually, about turning the disappointment of missing Tokyo into part of what helped him reach Paris. There's a lesson in that whether you're trying to become an Olympian, build a company, raise a kid, create something meaningful or simply become better at what you do. Sometimes success isn't about knowing you'll win. It's having enough belief in yourself to stay around long enough to find out. Stay in the race. You don't know how good you can get. Support the show Visit My Website: https://www.gregoryvetter.com/ Podcast: https://youtube.com/@gregoryvetter?si=pMLS8CMW_tqaBFGi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glvetter?igsh=MW5rN2tqeWdreXJ1cA== TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gregorylvetter?_r=1&_t=ZP-917lH2Ah5Tz Youtube Shorts: https://youtube.com/@gregoryvettershorts?si=Qg4bRQL4xmRl8cwQ My Substack: https://gregoryvetter.substack.com/ Purchase My Books Here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Gregory-L.-Vetter/author/B0DSJRHJQS?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=a24a52fb-666f-43a2-9eeb-40b8266ae702
