{"id":5227,"date":"2014-01-15T06:09:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T14:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2014-01-15T06:09:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T14:09:32","slug":"new-york-times-profile-mikaela-shiffrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/new-york-times-profile-mikaela-shiffrin\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Profile of Mikaela Shiffrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times published a l<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/10\/sports\/mikaela-shiffrins-swift-if-unplanned-ascent-to-world-champion.html?_r=0\">engthy and in-depth profile<\/a> of Mikaela Shiffrin recently. The article provides a great exploration of how Mikaela has risen so far so quickly as an alpine ski racer while also developing into a mature, happy, and just plain nice young woman.<\/p>\n<p>I had several take-aways from the article that should be useful for all young athletes, parents, and coaches:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The drive must come from within.<\/li>\n<li>Parents must create opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>It takes many, many hours of training on and off the hill.<\/li>\n<li>It also takes an inborn athleticism, balance, and feel that can&#8217;t be taught.<\/li>\n<li>If you focus on the process, the results will come.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s about long-term development, not short-term gains.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a family experience.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain normalcy.<\/li>\n<li>Focus on improvement.<\/li>\n<li>Have fun!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to write a longer post about these 10 lessons in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times published a lengthy and in-depth profile of Mikaela Shiffrin recently. The article provides a great exploration of how Mikaela has risen so far so quickly as an alpine ski racer while also developing into a mature, happy, and just plain nice young woman. I had several take-aways from the article that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1516],"tags":[248,598,58,133,234,61,599],"class_list":["post-5227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ski-racing","tag-alpine-ski-racing","tag-athletic-development","tag-competition","tag-goal-setting","tag-mikaela-shiffrin","tag-sports-2","tag-sports-parents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}