What Do You Do The Day After You Win? (ft. Yaya Touré, Ben Ainslie & Ian Thorpe)

Everyone talks about what it takes to win. Nobody talks about what comes the morning after. In this episode, Jake and Damian go deep into the HPP archive to explore one of the most uncomfortable truths in high performance: why the moment of victory so often leaves elite performers feeling empty, lost, and at a total loss for what comes next.

Featuring conversations with Yaya Touré on the strange emptiness of retirement, Ben Ainslie on the post-Olympic blues that hit 24 hours after winning gold, Ian Thorpe on walking away from a sport that stopped feeling like his own, Héctor Bellerín on why your value should burn like a candle - steady, never spiking - and Billy Monger on finding purpose after having it stripped away entirely.

Jake and Damian also get into the psychology of why we delay our happiness, what self-determination theory tells us about intrinsic motivation, and why the people who handle the end of peak achievement best are the ones who were never only defined by it.

The question isn't really 'what do you do the day after you win?' It's 'who are you when the goal is gone?'

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Listen to the full episodes:

Yaya Touré https://pod.fo/e/3f55a1

Ben Ainslie https://pod.fo/e/661e6

Ian Thorpe https://pod.fo/e/d9a3a

Héctor Bellerín https://pod.fo/e/d3369

Billy Monger https://pod.fo/e/a8d2c

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