Olympic Bronze Medalist and World #1 Mohamed Elsayed: Trusting Yourself When It Counts Most | The Will to Win Ep. 3

How powerful is manifestation? In Paris 2024, Mohamed Elsayed won bronze, and then finally opened a video that he recorded on his phone in 2021.

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In this episode, you'll discover:
• How Mohamed Elsayed turned years of one-touch losses in quarterfinals into the exact skills that won him an Olympic medal, and why he says he didn't know those losses were building something the whole time.
• The multi-year promise: why Mo recorded a message to himself as an anonymous spectator at Tokyo 2021, never re-watched it, and what happened when he finally opened it the day after Paris.
• What "just be yourself" actually means at the Olympic level, Mo's take on full preparation followed by total self-trust, and why that's the opposite of laziness.
• How to mentally move on from a devastating loss: Mo's framework for processing failure, detaching from results, and showing up ready two weeks later.

Mohamed Elsayed is an Egyptian Olympic bronze medalist in épée fencing from the Paris 2024 Games, one of only two Egyptian Olympic fencing medalists, and a fencer who has built his career on mastering the one-touch moment under maximum pressure.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00:00 - Introduction: Who Is Mohamed Elsayed
00:01:34 - The Art of the One-Touch Moment
00:03:32 - Trusting Yourself When It Counts Most
00:06:03 - There Is Always a Comeback
00:08:47 - The Video Promise: Tokyo 2021 to Paris 2024
00:11:53 - Goal Setting, Wish Lists, and Becoming a Legend
00:14:10 - How to Respond to Devastating Loss
00:17:09 - Learning to Move On
00:21:13 - Dealing With the Pressure of Expectations
00:25:44 - What 'Just Be Yourself' Actually Means
00:27:35 - Trusting Yourself When Everything Works Against You
00:29:57 - Flow State: What Freedom Feels Like on the Strip
00:32:41 - Living the Dream From the Inside Out
00:35:26 - Rapid Fire: Peace, Poker Face, and Who Mo Is Off the Strip
00:37:27 - Closing

💬 BEST QUOTES
"I didn't know that every touch I lost was building up to a greater moment." [00:02:52]
"I think it was just, a pure moment of me promising myself…I'm talking to my future self about me being there, and, I just have to wait." [00:10:03]
"The will to win is yours." [00:37:32]

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