This was one of the most powerful conversations that I had with India's first Olympic Gold Medalist, Abhinav Bindra. We discuss various aspects of achievement, mindset, mentorship, staying grounded, preparation and more.
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How Abhinav Bindra started off in his career?
What were the roles his mentors played in his success?
How to prepare for an Olympic championship?
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Thank you Siddharth for sharing the Interview through Podcast.
Lieutenant Colonel Abhinav Apjit Bindra is an Indian Olympic gold medallist, retired recreation shooter, and businessman.[1] He is the first and one in all most effective 2 Indians to win an Individual Olympic Gold Medal.[2][3] He is the first Indian to have held concurrently the world and Olympic titles for the guys’s 10-meter air rifle occasion, having earned the ones honors at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships. Bindra has also gained seven medals at the Commonwealth Games and 3 medals at the Asian Games.
With greater than a hundred and fifty medals in his 22-12 months career, he’s the recipient of the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India and is one of the top influencers of sport coverage in the us of a.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Bindra completed fourth in the finals of the ten-meter air rifle event. He also served as a goodwill ambassador for the Rio 2016 Olympics Indian contingent, having been appointed to that post by means of the Indian Olympics Association (IOA). On September 5, 2016, he introduced his retirement.
Bindra’s primary outreach to Indian sports is through the Abhinav Bindra Foundation, a non-profit company that works to integrate sports, technological know-how, and era into Indian sports and encourage excessive-overall performance bodily education.
In 2018, Abhinav become bestowed with the celebrated Blue Cross, the ISSF’s maximum honor.
Bindra is likewise presently a member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, shooter Abhinav Bindra made records through winning a gold medal inside the 10m Air Rifle occasion and ended India’s excruciating look forward to an person gold medalist at the Summer Games. It become also India’s first Olympic yellow medal because 1980 when its men’s hockey team back domestic on a high.
To attain his dream, Bindra left no stone unturned or even scaled a forty feet excessive ‘pizza pole’ to triumph over his worry. Despite a fourth role inside the qualifying spherical, he zoomed to the top with a rating of 104.Five within the very last round and etched his call inside the record books.
Bindra, a baby prodigy, became bestowed with country wide awards at some point of his young adults, such as the Arjuna Award at 18 years and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna at 19. A yr after his step forward success in Beijing, he become honoured with India’s third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan.
Famed for his single-minded willpower, at times bordering on obsession, Bindra set an instance for everybody aiming to excel in life, now not simply in sports. In May 2016, the Punjab-primarily based shooter become appointed the Goodwill Ambassador for Rio 2016 Olympic Games Indian Contingent with the aid of the Indian Olympics Association (IOA). Having agonizingly missed a medal in his very last Olympics, Bindra announced his retirement soon after.
Biggest Takeaways-
8 Entrepreneurial Lessons By Abhinav Bindra-
1. You want ardour and addiction:
It’s one factor training, its one aspect doing properly. You do it in your very own comfort sector; the idea is to duplicate that. When you’re under stress you’ve got the potential to deliver out the exceptional.
2. The idea is to higher yourself every day:
It’s such an addiction, the complete project of trying to higher your self. Trying to be the excellent that you could be. On a particular day, you see that you are without a doubt accurate. That type of offers you a excessive, keeps you going, offers you desire.
3. Don’t get slowed down:
There are going to be harsh and hard moments. There are moments whilst you are beneath pressure. Come out of these tough instances. Success is to again yourself and supply your self what you’re able to.
4. Pursuit of excellence:
To be successful in any field of lifestyles, be it sport or business, you want excellence. The motivation has to return from deep inside. Whether you need it otherwise you don’t need it. You might be capable of reap some thing if you need it from deep inside your self. It is disturbing but whatever you need to pursue for excellence to push the bounds it is going to be worrying.
5. Love what you do, do what you like:
Because I love the sport so much I am most comfortable after I am actually doing it. I don’t need to do some thing out of it to particularly relax. For me, after I am worried in some thing I experience doing, it’s in itself is enjoyable.
6. Be the excellent version of yourself:
Winning is a aggregate of a lot of things. You need a number of dedication; you need the notion to lower back your self. That potential to lower back comes from everything you have got completed viable. That offers you the self assurance to go out and be the high-quality that you can be.
7. The journey is more crucial than the destination:
It’s the adventure that counts, the efforts that you put in. It’s all approximately ultimate proper and dedicated to the challenge that you have in hand. Making the satisfactory of the journey that you are concerned in. When you attempt to do this the outcome is there for itself.
8. Give it your exceptional shot:
Take one step at a time and attempt to appreciate the opportunity which you have and ensure which you make the fine of every shot. The concept is to stay within the second and live the fine in every moment you’ve got.
Personal learning for Personal Growth-
– Practicing Gratitude
– Meditation
– Integrity
-Honesty
-Self Respect
-Never Give up in any Circumstances.
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Thank you Sir for sharing the interview from Podcast.
Inside the mind of an Olympic medalist Abhinav Bindra.
1) He has start his journey of rifle shooting at the age of 13 yr old. How his coach use to give strict instruction about the timing and principle in life.ti follow. Abhinavji use to go to school in the morning his life started at 6 AM in the morning go to school come back then come back home had lunch and go to his coach home to take training on rifle shooting. 6 pm come back had dinner and at 8 go to bed. This is the discipline life he use to follow.
2)His parents give space to take decision of his life. Even when failure is there they give full support to Abhinavji.
3) To become best being always work for self respect. Always work on both. Balance of mind is very important regarding focus in both areas on sports and education.
4)Ability not to give up. Continue to overcome your challenges.
5)Sports give you discipline in your life.
-Hard work
-Honesty
-Integrity
-Practicing gratitude
-Meditation
– Indepth learner
Now he is living his second phase of his life. Set up his business connected to health ,Olympic education etc so he is living his life at fullest.
Thank you.
Inside The Mind Of An Olympic Gold Medalist – Abhinav Bindra
1. Who was the first coach? fundamental principles taught
-First Coach Kernel Dhillon. Shortest way to success is hard work
2. What was practice routine like in intial days?
– 40 hrs a week time for shooting goal,
3. Did you feel like this is too much or feeling like give up?
– Self motivated, tried to become better than yesterday, continue to work forward, attain your self respect in own your eyes
4. you could had that very strong regiment in terms of Routine, clock work, focused work?
– right very regimented life
5. What goes on you head during such intense and nature of this kind of sport?
– Stand absolutely still is one of most physical activity demanding, synchronization between mind and body, learns from others, learn from people outside from our field
6. What was the feeling 2008 Bijeing olympic gold?
– Detached from output, goal for that day is being best, lot of efforts, so many years of training, resources to get the outcome. No guarantee to success. Relief is apparent emotions.
7. Mentally preparation for particular that day, any rituals?
– detached from outcome, having the ability to accept and adaptability, openness, flexibility of mindset, Practicing gratitude, Mindfulness. When you start this as a way of life, internalise habbits and internalize aspect must then do not need to specially do on those final day
8- Who your big inspiration?
– Parents,
9. What’s going on mind?
– sport foundation, development education, sports, health, olympic value education program to india, (how to loose, hard work , discipline, honesty…)
10. Other thing interested
– Animals, food, travel, reading..
11. Message for coach, trainer
– Beliving everybody, parents are big mentor, good listener
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Fantastic Vinod!
4 Aspects in the a Life of Mr.Bindra after Validating with my research after listening to the podcast
1) He is coming from a financially strong family background with lot of space provided from childhood from age of 13 got his training from the professional coach.
2)He is mentally strong and got the gift of being dethatched from the outcomes but aspiring to become better today then yesterday.
3)Handwork is the MANTRA that he followed form his mentor words that was told him at the every beginning.
4)He understood the liberty he got from his parents in either to make his own decision or support that given to him from the finical perspective and made himself accountable for the same
So honored to listen to this interview and to be part of your community, Sidz.
What I liked was what he said about being a good mentor:
1) Learn to believe your student like his parents always did for him
2) Be a good listener
– There is great power in listening to different perspectives.
– Even if you do not like it, hear it out from both sides and give it a thought
– When you cool down, you will see meaning in that different perspective
Thank you, Coach! Waiting to listen to the rest of the legends…
Regards, Preetha
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What I gathered from the interview; the mind of Abhinav Bindra- Olympic Gold Medalist in shooting. Success recipes:
Persisting his goal of becoming a star shooter.
Doggedly going after a Coach of Par-excellence, even if he was turned down a couple of times.
Started young. Followed with strong discipline of practicing long hours.
Following instructions of the Coach.
Never giving up attitude.
Accepting challenges and failures with peace of mind. Detaching mind from success and failure
Trained Body, Mind to work in harmony and in tandem. The body pulls up mind when it is weak and vice versa.
Positive attitude and leap of faith.
Challenging Coach, supporting parents and self-love.
Failures are more than success, taking them positive in your stride.
Gratefulness, Mindfulness and Adaptability- tool kit
Withstanding the pressure of performing at great events and accepting a detached outlook.
Non-judgmental outlook and believing people and self as well.
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Inside the mind of an Olympic medalist Abhinav Bindra.
1) He has start his journey of rifle shooting at the age of 13 yr old. How his coach use to give strict instruction about the timing and principle in life.ti follow. Abhinavji use to go to school in the morning his life started at 6 AM in the morning go to school come back then come back home had lunch and go to his coach home to take training on rifle shooting. 6 pm come back had dinner and at 8 go to bed. This is the discipline life he use to follow.
2)His parents give space to take decision of his life. Even when failure is there they give full support to Abhinavji.
3) To become best being always work for self respect. Always work on both. Balance of mind is very important regarding focus in both areas on sports and education.
4)Ability not to give up. Continue to overcome your challenges.
5)Sports give you discipline in your life.
-Hard work
-Honesty
-Integrity
-Practicing gratitude
-Meditation
– Indepth learner