Resolving the Habit of Discontent with Nikon Gormley

Nikon Gormley had achieved success as a top-level athlete, but he was still searching for answers. He wanted to feel calm during his taekwondo matches so he began looking in all the usual places. It wasn’t until he discovered the Three Principles that things began to click into place for him. Now he coaches others about the innate resilience and well-being that we all possess.

Nikon Gormley is passionate about guiding people to unleash their true, full potential so that they can experience greater levels of success, purpose, and well-being in their lives. He helps people understand and experience the beauty of how their minds work, harness the power of insight to navigate life with more clarity and ease and achieve more with less struggle, less anxiety, and less pressure.

Nikon is also passionate about Taekwondo. He have been practising Taekwondo for 25+ years and has a 5th Dan Black Belt. He has trained and competed around the world as an elite athlete.

You can find Nikon Gormley at NikonGormley.com and on YouTube @nikongormley.

You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below.

Show Notes

* Training as an Olympic taekwondo athlete

* Searching for ways to be a better athlete

* Growing a business at its own pace, rather than out of insecurity

* When the habit of being discontented stops being interesting

* How our feelings are always guiding us home

* How ‘nobody gets stupid when they’re peaceful’

* On the nature of worry and its origin in thought

* Choosing what we pay attention to

* How ambition can be insecurity in disguise

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

* Michael Neill’s book The Inside Out Revolution

* Mavis Karn’s book It’s That Simple

* Listen to my interview with Mavis

Transcript of Interview with Nikon Gormley

Alexandra: Nikon Gormley, welcome to Unbroken.

Nikon: Thank you for having me, Alexandra. It’s pleasure to be here.

Alexandra: It’s so nice to have you here.

Tell us a little bit about your background and how you discovered the Three Principles.

Nikon: My background started as a taekwondo athlete, as a young boy, as a martial art taken as a Korean martial art. And being called the athlete side of it, right, there’s a martial art side of it. And there’s an athlete side of it, because it was the Olympic sport in Thailand, it’s just very popular, we have it in our national Olympics, or we can get University scholarship scholarships for it.

I started when I was 12. And I played for about 20 years. And being in a sport, you develop this thing where you just want to be better, you get obsessed with yourself not being good enough, and you get obsessed with wanting to be better. And apart from doing everything I physically could to be better and training, I knew I had to work on my mind.