BITESIZE # 15 | Siya Kolisi: Always be ready for an opportunity

Siya’s podcast was one of the most humbling and powerful conversations we have ever had. His story growing up in poverty before becoming the first black man to captain South Africa and lead the team to World Cup glory is filled with inspiration, positivity and hope. This particular message from Siya is no matter who you are, always be ready for an opportunity. If you haven’t listened to the full episode, click here: https://pod.fo/e/af659

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The High Performance Podcast features an inspiring conversation with Siya Kolisi, the first black captain of the South African rugby team who led them to World Cup glory. His story of overcoming poverty to achieve greatness is filled with positivity and hope.

Siya emphasizes the importance of being ready for opportunities and not letting victimhood mentality hold you back. He stresses the significance of making the most of what you have and preparing yourself for success. Dreams and aspirations are crucial in driving personal growth and achievement.

The podcast highlights the contrast between a victim mentality and a growth mindset. It encourages listeners to embrace a positive attitude, take responsibility, and strive for improvement rather than complaining about circumstances.

The discussion also delves into the idea of "high performance" not being defined by societal standards but rather by personal goals and aspirations. It emphasizes the importance of setting achievable targets and working towards them with determination.

The podcast concludes with a reminder to dream big, have ambition, and take responsibility for one's actions. It encourages listeners to overcome obstacles, embrace challenges, and strive for success on their own terms.

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[02:08.660 -> 02:10.900] Hi there, welcome along to this bite-sized episode
[02:10.900 -> 02:12.340] of the High Performance Podcast.
[02:12.340 -> 02:15.400] You might not have an hour today to spend with us.
[02:15.400 -> 02:17.580] You might not have the time, you might be busy.
[02:17.580 -> 02:20.800] However, still, you can get a short, sharp hit
[02:20.800 -> 02:23.380] of inspiration from the High Performance Podcast.
[02:23.380 -> 02:29.680] And this week's guest is one of our favorite ones ever. It's also a reminder of all the amazing conversations we've had
[02:29.680 -> 02:34.080] over the past few series. If you want to go right back to the very beginning, feel free
[02:34.080 -> 02:38.000] to do that. Even if you've already listened to them, to go again, I think when you listen
[02:38.000 -> 02:41.640] again you just hear things that you can't believe you missed the first time. So feel
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[02:56.720 -> 03:02.320] it simply wouldn't have happened. Just because your friends are poor doesn't mean you're gonna
[03:02.320 -> 03:05.000] be poor. You gotta work each and every single day.
[03:05.000 -> 03:08.000] Like for me, because the opportunity will come.
[03:08.000 -> 03:09.000] That's what I realized.
[03:09.000 -> 03:12.000] The opportunity will come or it might not come.
[03:12.000 -> 03:15.000] Some people doesn't come, but I prepared each and every single day by going to training.
[03:15.000 -> 03:19.000] And when the opportunity came, I was ready when I got my bursary.
[03:19.000 -> 03:21.000] Most people complain and complain and complain.
[03:21.000 -> 03:24.000] Opportunity presents itself and they're not ready.
[03:24.000 -> 03:28.320] And that's where the difference is. And that every single time I've had an opportunity,
[03:28.320 -> 03:31.360] I've been able to carry it with both hands because I've been preparing,
[03:31.360 -> 03:36.800] and the way that my grandmother raised me. You've got to make use of what you have around you
[03:36.800 -> 03:40.800] before you start complaining about what you don't have. One of the biggest things that I've learned,
[03:40.800 -> 03:45.160] I'm going to use everything I can. If I can't make it, then I'll go look for help,
[03:45.160 -> 03:47.560] because maybe this is not enough anymore.
[03:48.320 -> 03:51.680] Damien, it's a reminder of two things, I think, that the first one,
[03:51.680 -> 03:55.520] that victim mentality will never give you the life you want.
[03:55.800 -> 03:58.520] And secondly, without dreams, what have we got?
[03:58.560 -> 03:59.440] Yeah, exactly.
[03:59.440 -> 04:03.520] I thought it was, it's mind blowing just to hear it back again, Jake.
[04:03.520 -> 04:05.480] I thought when we did it originally, we were both incredibly moved by what Sia had to say. Mae'n ddiddorol i gyd oedd yn dweud hynny, Jake. Rwy'n meddwl, pan wnaethom hi'n gyntaf,
[04:05.480 -> 04:07.240] roedd gennym ni ddwy,
[04:07.240 -> 04:09.400] yn anhygoel o'r hyn sydd wedi cael ei ddweud,
[04:09.400 -> 04:10.000] ac rwy'n credu,
[04:10.000 -> 04:12.760] mae clywed i'r ffyrdd o'i gofyn yn anhygoel.
[04:12.760 -> 04:13.920] Rwy'n cael fy nghyfynu,
[04:13.920 -> 04:15.280] efallai mae'n ddiddorol,
[04:15.280 -> 04:17.080] ond mae Ian Brown o'r Stone Roses
[04:17.080 -> 04:18.040] wedi cael unrhyw ddwylo gwych
[04:18.040 -> 04:18.880] sy'n dweud,
[04:18.880 -> 04:19.720] dyw e ddim ar y lle rydych chi,
[04:19.720 -> 04:20.960] dyw e'r lle rydych chi.
[04:20.960 -> 04:22.080] Ac rwy'n credu,
[04:22.080 -> 04:23.040] yr hyn sy'n ei ddysgrifio yno,
[04:23.040 -> 04:28.240] yw'r meddwl sy'n ei ddysgrifio yno, o, ddim byd yn ddyn. Ddim yn ymdrechu am yr hyn sy'n ei ddweud, you're at and I think it's a what is describing there is a mindset that see it describes error of don't be a victim don't complain about what you don't have
[04:28.240 -> 04:33.080] or where you're from or what's not going right for you have a mindset of saying
[04:33.080 -> 04:37.560] this is what I've got and I'm prepared to make the best of whatever situations
[04:37.560 -> 04:42.480] throw at me at any moment and I think that's inspiring for anybody to listen
[04:42.480 -> 04:46.240] to again and if that sentence resonated with you as well,
[04:46.240 -> 04:48.840] I would suggest that you go back and listen to the episode
[04:48.840 -> 04:49.880] with Nims Purge.
[04:49.880 -> 04:51.400] If you don't know, Nims is a mountaineer
[04:51.400 -> 04:53.440] who scaled the highest mountains in the world
[04:53.440 -> 04:54.640] quicker than anybody else.
[04:54.640 -> 04:58.160] He recently went to the top of K2 in the winter.
[04:58.160 -> 04:59.560] The first person to do that,
[04:59.560 -> 05:01.920] he is someone that breaks barriers all the time.
[05:01.920 -> 05:05.400] And just like Tsiolk Colisi, he came from poverty.
[05:05.400 -> 05:07.880] He came from a family where it wasn't really
[05:07.880 -> 05:09.200] the expected thing to dream
[05:09.200 -> 05:10.740] that you could do absolutely anything.
[05:10.740 -> 05:12.920] And I want people to really understand that, Damien,
[05:12.920 -> 05:15.720] because I think that there's this natural default position
[05:15.720 -> 05:17.720] where people will automatically go
[05:17.720 -> 05:20.020] to the victimhood mentality.
[05:20.020 -> 05:23.200] And in all honesty, if you're listening to this podcast
[05:23.200 -> 05:24.760] and you've got access to it,
[05:24.760 -> 05:28.520] then the chances are you are living in a world
[05:28.520 -> 05:31.760] and an environment and a place where you should
[05:31.760 -> 05:33.620] and could do whatever you wanted
[05:33.620 -> 05:36.080] because Sia came from absolutely nothing.
[05:36.080 -> 05:39.120] Nimz Perjah came from absolutely nothing,
[05:39.120 -> 05:40.600] but it was the dreams that made the difference.
[05:40.600 -> 05:42.920] And Stuart Weber has spoken to us on the podcast
[05:42.920 -> 05:48.240] about always believing he'd win the Premier League. Matthew McConawerau o ddreimiau. Tyrone Mings,
[05:48.240 -> 05:52.400] pan oedd yn mynd trwy ddifficol amser fel chwaraewyr ifanc, roedd y ddreimiau sydd wedi'i gael yno.
[05:53.120 -> 05:57.760] Ac rwy'n credu, weithiau, fel ein bod ni'n ffried i ddreimio, ym mhob ffordd dydyn ni ddim yn mynd yno,
[05:57.760 -> 06:01.520] gwybod? Ie, yn unig. Rwy'n credu, mae yna ddifrif o gyfarchiad rydw i wedi ei ddysgu
[06:01.520 -> 06:08.480] yr wythnosau yn ôl a dweud, pan fyddwch chi'n mynd i'r ystafell lle mae plant yn cael gofyn iddo, pa mor allan y gall eu hadau, bob baith oedol ffyrdd, byddai'n rhoi'r
[06:08.480 -> 06:13.040] dŵr arno pan fyddwch chi'n mynd i'r ystafell o 18 oedolion a gofyn iddo, byddai'n gallu cael
[06:13.040 -> 06:18.960] 5%, oherwydd maen nhw'n ymdrechu'r sôn o ran 18 oedolion o'r rhai sy'n gallu hadau'n
[06:18.960 -> 06:25.200] iawn ac maen nhw'n rhoi hynny ato ac yn ymdrechu, ond gallwn i gyd ddreu, ac mae'n yr un peth gyda'r
[06:25.200 -> 06:30.320] meddwl, rydym i gyd yn gallu meddwl, gallwn i gyd gael ambysiyniadau ac dwi ddim yn credu y dylwn ni
[06:30.320 -> 06:35.280] alluogi bywyd neu'r realiau o bywyd a'r argofion y mae'n eu lleihau arni i ddweud
[06:35.280 -> 06:40.720] mewn meddwl am bethau fod yn well i'r bach mwyaf na'r maen nhw, gan gael mwy o gyfle,
[06:40.720 -> 06:49.680] gwneud pethau'n ychydig wedi'u hyfforddi, dyna beth yw cyflwyniadau cyhoeddiol. Rwy'n credu eich bod chi'n opportunity making things slightly improved that's what high performance is I think you're absolutely right and I think also not letting society decide
[06:49.680 -> 06:55.680] for us what success looks like you know if I was to run the London Marathon to
[06:55.680 -> 07:01.000] do it in under four hours would be a success if Mo Farah ran the London
[07:01.000 -> 07:04.800] Marathon to do it in that same time would be an abject failure so I think
[07:04.800 -> 07:06.720] that we have to be careful we We're not saying to people,
[07:06.720 -> 07:11.800] you have to achieve this incredibly difficult goal that is miles ahead of you.
[07:11.840 -> 07:16.840] It's about setting your own targets that mean success in your own mind and going
[07:17.360 -> 07:18.200] for those.
[07:18.200 -> 07:19.020] Absolutely.
[07:19.400 -> 07:22.840] There's a 13 word phrase that sometimes comes to mind on that Jacob,
[07:22.860 -> 07:30.080] do the best you can with what you've got in the moment you're in. ffras o ddwylo, sy'n dod yn oedol ar hynny, Jacob, gwneud y mwyaf y gallwch, gyda'r hyn rydych chi'n cael yn y moment y byddwch chi'n ei mewn. Rwy'n edrych yn ôl ar y llyfr cyntaf rydw i'n ei ddewis yn 2004
[07:30.080 -> 07:36.080] a byddai i wneud yn wahanol heddiw? Wel, ie, byddai, oherwydd mae'n 17 mlynedd yn ôl,
[07:36.080 -> 07:39.040] ond ar hyn o bryd, pan ddewisais, roedd yn y moment y byddais i'n gallu'n fwy o'r ffordd
[07:39.040 -> 07:43.040] y byddwn i'n ei mewn gyda'r wybodaeth rydych chi wedi'i gael, ac roedd hynny i mi yn
[07:43.040 -> 07:47.800] cyflwyniad fawr, ar fy nifer, nid ar yr hyn sy'n ei ddweud byddai unrhyw un eraill. With the knowledge I had and that to me was high performance and on my terms not on what anybody else would have said
[07:49.000 -> 07:51.200] I really like that. I like that a lot
[07:51.200 -> 07:58.280] So there you go everyone a short few minutes that basically I guess the message to you is make sure you dream
[07:58.280 -> 08:02.860] I mean you can you can absolutely dream big if that's what you want to do or you can dream small
[08:02.860 -> 08:06.820] But just dream just have ambition have something that you want to do, or you can dream small, but just dream, just have ambition, have something that you want to achieve
[08:06.820 -> 08:09.880] and don't believe that anything else is gonna stop you.
[08:09.880 -> 08:12.760] All of us can find reasons and circumstances
[08:12.760 -> 08:14.020] and things outside our control,
[08:14.020 -> 08:15.900] but as we speak about so often
[08:15.900 -> 08:17.740] on the High Performance Podcast,
[08:17.740 -> 08:20.380] what matters is taking responsibility,
[08:20.380 -> 08:24.360] not looking for fault, 100% responsibility.
[08:24.360 -> 08:27.880] And as we've heard, that's exactly what Sio Colisi did
[08:27.880 -> 08:29.280] and what a life he is living.
[08:29.280 -> 08:30.680] Damien, thanks so much, mate.
[08:30.680 -> 08:32.320] Thanks Jake, loved it as always.
[08:32.320 -> 08:33.800] Thanks very much to Lotus Cars
[08:33.800 -> 08:35.360] for being our founding partners,
[08:35.360 -> 08:37.880] for helping us to create the High Performance Podcast
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[08:41.360 -> 08:43.160] if you want to find them online.
[08:43.160 -> 08:44.960] And thanks very much to Give Me Sports,
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[08:46.560 -> 08:49.240] and to get even more amazing content from them,
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[08:52.880 -> 08:54.720] Thanks to Finn Ryan from Rethink Audio.
[08:54.720 -> 08:55.560] Thanks to Will.
[08:55.560 -> 08:56.380] Thanks to Hannah.
[08:56.380 -> 08:57.220] Thanks to Damien.
[08:57.220 -> 09:00.040] Thanks to everyone involved in the High Performance Podcast.
[09:00.040 -> 09:01.760] Most of all, thanks to you.
[09:01.760 -> 09:04.680] We do this podcast for you
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