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Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 9:16 p.m.

On today's You Get the Gist, I\u2019m wanting to make a couple of points that may or may not have occurred to you while you heard about or you were watching Simone Biles\u2019 journey at the Olympics. First, I wondered what your first thought might\u2019ve been when you heard Ms. Biles had initially opted out. And we fairly quickly learned it was because of her concerns about her focus \u2013 basically her impaired state of mental health \u2013 and how that might work to harm her physically. Or as she said to her team, \u201cI don\u2019t want to ruin your chances of winning\u2026\u201d with a less than stellar performance.

And second, did you put yourself in her shoes? Could you disappoint your boss, or your family, or your kids \u2013 due to your own concerns about your mental health? How many times have you done things that you realized on a core level might harm you, but you went ahead and did it? Would there be a limit to that? What would the boundary be for you to say, \u201cNo, I can\u2019t.\u201d

There\u2019s a lot you can learn from your own reactions\u2026 so I\u2019m here today simply asking a few questions of you \u2013 the answers are yours to be privately considered \u2013 and maybe changed if need be.

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