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Rethink Your Training, with Taylor Knibb & Lawrence van Lingen

Name: Rethink Your Training, with Taylor Knibb & Lawrence van Lingen
Uploaded: 2025-04-04T14:48:37+00:00
Duration: 3 s
Channel: Floris Gierman
Description: In this excerpt from the YouTube interview "Rethink Your Training" with Taylor Knibb and Lawrence van Lingen, the speakers discuss mental‑health…

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In this excerpt from the YouTube interview "Rethink Your Training" with Taylor Knibb and Lawrence van Lingen, the speakers discuss mental‑health challenges linked to intense training and academic pressure. Speaker B shares a personal story of constant activity and time‑pressure‑induced anxiety during school, noting a calmer state this year. Speaker A emphasizes the intrinsic worth of being human and argues that many people cannot live authentically because of unsupportive surroundings. The suggested remedy is to change one’s environment to a place that feels loved, trusted, and accepted, enabling authentic self‑expression and reduced anxiety.

First and foremost, you're a human being, and that's enough.
I went to a school where I was doing stuff every single second of every single day. And so it would be from one thing to the next, the next, the next. I was anxious all the time, which you say that time pressure creates anxiety. I feel like I'm a lot calmer this year.
I think that not many people get to live an authentic life and express themselves authentically. Quickest way to do that is change your environment. And if people are feeling lost or picked on, the quickest thing I can tell that person is to get out of that environment and get into an environment which is loved and trusted and accepted.