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奥林匹克官网报道谷爱凌做客Jay Shetty播客:
“Train like I’ve never won and compete like I’ve never lost”“像从未赢过一样训练,像从未输过一样比赛”:三枚奥运会金牌得主谷爱凌分享职业生涯的成功哲学
这位22岁的自由式滑雪名将在做客一档播客节目时,分享了支撑她一路取得成功的竞技心态。
今年6月刚从斯坦福大学正式毕业后,手握六枚冬奥会奖牌的谷爱凌,如今已经进入了一种更具深度思考的全新人生状态。
她做客《On Purpose with Jay Shetty》播客节目时,把自己面对职业赛事的整套应对方式,形容为“完全以心理建设为核心的体系”。Making an appearance on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, she described her approach to competition as “extremely psychological”.
在拆解自己那套条理清晰、旁人眼里近乎“疯狂”的训练比赛方法论时,这位中国自由式滑雪超级明星,道出了自己整个职业生涯始终奉为圭臬的一句简单信条。
她说:“我一直把一句话刻在心里:‘像从未赢过一样训练,像从未输过一样比赛’”“这句话太重要了,因为我早就发现,站上最高领奖台很难,但在顶尖位置长期站稳脚跟,要比夺冠难上太多。”“I have a saying, ‘Train like I’ve never won and compete like I’ve never lost’,” she began. “That’s important because... I find it’s difficult to win, but it’s way harder to stay there.
“18岁到22岁这四年,人生会发生天翻地覆的变化。尤其对女性运动员来说,在人生这个特殊阶段始终维持竞技巅峰,难度真的非常非常大。”谷爱凌两次参加冬奥会,均有金牌入账。“So much happens between age 18 and 22,” added the freeskier with gold medals from two different editions of the Olympic Winter Games. “Staying in peak form during that period of your life, specifically as a woman, is very, very difficult.
“从上一届北京冬奥会到现在,我完整读完了整个大学阶段。当年参赛的时候我还只是个高中毕业生,现在我已经是斯坦福的大学毕业生了……回头看,我完全像换了一个人。””From my last Olympics to now, I went through all of college. Like, I was a high school grad and now I’m a college grad… that’s just two different people.”
虽然雪场之外的人生已经发生了这么多变化,但谷爱凌在自由式滑雪项目上的竞技水准始终没有丝毫下滑。她早在2020年洛桑冬青奥会上就崭露头角,随后在2022年北京冬奥会上直接成长为该项目的统治级选手。即便在北京冬奥会结束后到2026年米兰科尔蒂纳冬奥会之间,她曾有过一段调整休整期,谷爱凌也完全没有掉队。在意大利的赛场上,她展现出了自己的技术进化和超强稳定性,不仅成功卫冕了自由式滑雪U型场地技巧金牌,还在坡面障碍技巧和大跳台两个项目中稳稳拿下银牌。
但在谷爱凌看来,想要长期站在项目最顶尖位置所需要的那种持续稳定性,才是真正巨大的挑战。她在节目里告诉主持人Shetty,自己奉行的这句信条,能让人始终“保持对胜利的饥饿感”。It’s the consistency required to stay at the top level of the sport that Gu cites as a major challenge, however, telling Shetty that her adopted mantra “keeps you hungry”.
“这正是能让你十几年如一日维持顶级表现的核心原因。”紧接着,她进一步拆解了这套心态体系里的第三个关键层面:“想要成为真正的赢家,你站到赛场上的时候,必须拥有一种永不满足、近乎执着、像信仰一样的全情投入的状态。”“That’s what allows you to perform over time,” she proclaimed, before delving straight into the third facet of her adopted mindset. “In order to be a winner, you have to have this insatiable, almost obsessive, religious, all-in mentality when you compete.
但谷爱凌也特意给出了提醒:“恰恰是因为这种竞技状态的强度太高了,你根本不可能一直把它维持住。”“But because it is so intense, you cannot sustain it always,” Gu cautioned.
“长期陷在这种状态里,会催生出非常危险的自我认知。它会带来自负、过度自信和自满,而这些情绪,会直接毁掉你所有的日常训练。”“That’s what creates really dangerous egos. It’s what creates the hubris, overconfidence and complacency that undermines good training.”
她坦言:“我在训练的时候,对自己的要求苛刻到近乎挑剔。训练场上我眼里只能看到自己的动作失误,我会觉得自己好像什么动作都没做到完美。”“但等到正式比赛站上出发台的那一刻,我会立刻完成状态切换,一瞬间我就会告诉自己:‘我就是曾经踏上这片赛场的最强选手’””You have to be very critical of your own training,” she admitted. “I see only my mistakes when I’m training. I can never do anything right. But when I’m competing, you need to make the switch and [suddenly] I’m like, ‘I am the best person who has ever stepped foot here.’
当然,同时你也必须小心,不能过度沉溺在这种赛场无敌的状态里。在谷爱凌看来,某种程度上,正是这种清醒的边界感,才是她能长期保持成功、始终不丢失饥饿感的真正核心。
她继续解释说:“整套体系最关键的地方,就是把训练和比赛这两种完全不同的状态彻底区分开。”她提到,自己日常大概会以95%和5%的时间分配比例,在两种模式之间完成切换。对于所有想尝试这套心态方法的人,她给出的建议核心就是保持平衡:“有意识地在两种状态之间建立清晰的边界,正是这套方法能保护我,不至于在高压的竞技环境里彻底心态失衡的关键。””What’s so important is to separate that,” explained the freeskier with two World Championship titles to her name. Touting a 95 and five per cent split between the two modes, she recommended balance for anyone thinking of adopting her mentality: “Creating that really conscious distinction is what protects me from going absolutely insane.”
