Hi and welcome back to a new How Did You Make
It? I'm Yosra, your host, and this week it's
a recap episode. So what can you expect? So either
a very detailed episode on some of the key insights
you can take home and learn from, or a very short
recap of some of the elements that stood out
to me. But this episode has one goal, actually
two. The first, a call to action, to you to learn
from the guest. And to you to actually go to
listen to the full episode and learn from the
guest yourself. So let's start. Today, let's
cover four points. And one of the first takeaways
I want you to remember from the episode is, is
to choose your environment intentionally. Because
what we learn from Maya is that your environment
shapes your potential. Because the people around
you, your friends, your family members, the people
you choose as your mentors, your role models,
are influencing your confidence, the direction
you're going to take, and your ambitions. And
Maya is not the only one. You will see a pattern
between a lot of guests where they are actually
surrounding themselves with high -achieving people,
ambitious people, hard -working people, and also
growth -oriented people. Quickly, within the
episode, you'll see, if you haven't listened
to it yet, that thanks to her ecosystem maya
pursued not only sport but also paths that align
with something that she couldn't even imagine
her ecosystem helped her see possibilities see
opportunities where she didn't even start looking
and those were a great match what about the second
takeaway this is going to be a tough one this
is going to be a controversial one why because
It's a tricky one. Okay, I'll cut to the chase.
The idea is effort will eventually pay off. That
adopting that belief is going to help you build
not only a mindset of resilience, but also persistence
and consistency. As you will put your belief,
your trust in the process, and you'll keep going,
even if you don't see the results now. And I
said that was potentially controversial because
you're not necessarily getting what you deserve,
but you're building skills and capacities that
probably will help you for a situation, for context,
for an opportunity that you didn't even think
of. So a concrete example would be you didn't
get the job you wanted, you didn't get the internship
you wanted, but all the efforts and all the work
you put into it made you grow. made you better
made you more resilient and countless other elements
let's get to the third point in the episode we
kind of insisted on the fact that no one is going
to come and knock on your door and say you're
the one i need you're the one i need in my team
you're the one i need in my class you're the
one i need anywhere essentially in the episode
we invite you to be as proactive as possible
you need to start somewhere you need to initiate
something Maya in the episode insists on the
fact that success is not given. You need to create
your own opportunities. You essentially need
to start before you feel ready. And there are
countless examples not only in the episode itself
but in your everyday life. If you ever crossed
paths with someone who ran a marathon once or
a half marathon or a 10k when they started running
they didn't feel ready for a marathon or any
of those races. But instead of waiting to feel
ready in their mind, they just started. They
proactively started running. So that would be
an example. And the last and fourth point. Learn
from failure. Take action. Because your reaction
matters way more than the failure itself. Within
the episode, Maya is giving an incredible example
where she invites you to control your response
to that failure. to that learning. She lost her
competition. Then she had a normal emotional
reaction to it. But then the last step is that
she took action on that lesson. What that example
underlines is your growth begins after that emotion.
From there, you're not only building resilience,
but you're building as well your long -term success.
Go listen to the full episode. It's absolutely
fantastic. you might be able to start your growth
journey from there. Thank you for joining me
today. I can't wait to share next week episode.
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week.