Doing your best is more important than being the best.
-- Shannon Miller
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Being the best is something we all work toward being. The problem comes when we reach that status in our chosen endeavor.
Once we are recognized as being the best, we fall prey to the tendency to simply accept that status without doing anything further. In that sense,
we treat being the best the same way we treat being tall or short or hairy or bald: being the best just is. We stop working toward being the best while others continue their quest to be the best, and for those people it means beating us.
We should always work toward being our best. Once we reach that status, we switch gears and work toward maintaining that status, and that means being better tomorrow than we are today. Being the best isn't guaranteed or promised to any of us, and neither is staying the best. We will never be 100% perfect, but we can work to progress from being 99% perfect to being 99.44% perfect.
Some (More) Information about Shannon Miller
Shannon Miller did better at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games, winning an Olympic Gold Medal in the balance beam event. She also helped her team win the Gold Medal by defeating Team Russia. It was the first time the American women's gymnastics team had ever won the team competiton, and it was the first time the US had beaten a team from either Russia or its predecessor the USSR.
The 1996 Olympics would be the last time Shannon Miler would win any major titles, although she would continue competing for a few years more. She officially retired as a gymnast in 2001. In recognition of her Olympic achievements, she was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame twice: in 2006 as an individual athlete and in 2008 for her team-based achievements.
Shannon Miller resumed her academic career, which included attending law school. In 2007 she had earned her law degree from Boston College. In 2007 she also set up the Shannon Miller Foundation, established to fight to tne choldhood obesity.
In 2015 she published her autobiography, Itβs Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life, written with help from Danny Peary. Her autobiography features not only her gymnastics career but also her later battle with ovarian cancer.
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