Olympian Kate Courtney on Optimization and Embracing the Process | This is What You Have To Choose

<p>Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to mountain bike champion Kate Courtney about her recent trip to the Tokyo Olympics which <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/olympics-mountain-biking-kate-courtney/2021/08/06/ac909d14-f646-11eb-a49b-d96f2dac0942_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">she wrote about in the Washington Post</a>, seeing moments of failure as opportunities for growth, the important distinction between optimization vs. maximization, and more.</p><p>Kate Courtney is a professional mountain bike racer for the Scott-SRAM MTB Racing Team. Kate is the 2019 Elite XCO World Cup Overall Champion, and the 2018 Elite XCO World Champion. In 2017, Kate won four U23 World Cups and earned the U23 Overall World Cup victory as well as her first Elite National Championship Title. In 2018, Kate became the first American in 17 years to win an Elite MTB World Championship and only the fourth American woman to do so. Kate also secured her spot as a member of the US Olympic team for Tokyo 2020.&nbsp;</p><p>Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/products/amor-fati-medallion-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amor Fati challenge coin</a> at <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/products/amor-fati-medallion-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">store.dailystoic.com</a></p><p><a href="https://blinkist.com/stoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Blinkist</a> is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out there. <a href="https://blinkist.com/stoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Blinkist</a> lets you get the topline information and the most important points from the most important nonfiction books out there, whether it’s Ryan’s own <a href="https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/the-daily-stoic-en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Daily Stoic</em></a><em>, </em>Yuval Harari’s <a href="https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/sapiens-en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Sapiens</em>