one of the most important components of building my athletes’ mindsets is coming up with a definition of success that is not tied to the result they’re after. Most people would look at Katrín and define success for her as winning the Games twice. What happens, then, if she doesn’t win? Is she a failure? Tying success or failure to one single point in time, one event over which you really don’t have much control of the circumstances, sets you up for unavoidable failure because there’s no way anyone can win every single time.
