Athlete's Grit: From Sports to Life

Season 1 - Ep 13 - Athlete's Grit with Yip Ren Kai

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My guest today is Yip Ren Kai, ex-National Water Polo Vice-Captain and multiple SEA Games Gold Medalist, Entrepreneur, and Grassroots Contributor.

One of the best centreback specialist and all-rounded player I have ever known. I knew Ren Kai since he was a young player and he donned National Colours only after I retired from the sport. But very privileged to have played with him in many other competitions as a teammate and also against him as a competitor. A great leader and highly respected, in and outside of the pool.

I hope you enjoy the session as much as I did.

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  • 0.30 Renkai introduces himself and his businesses
  • 3.00 2009 was his last SEA Games
  • 4.45 Contributing back to the sports industry
  • 5.30 Was being involved in work that involved sports something he always knew he wanted to do?
  • 7.30 Signing up for the organizing committee for the Youth Olympics Games (YOG) 2010
  • 8.00 Sports brings everyone together
  • 9.00 Reason for retirement
  • 10.00 Stepping aside to let the younger ones take it further
  • 10.30 How do you know that you’re at your peak?
  • 11.30 Be a contributor and not a liability
  • 13.00 Setting goals for sport are the same as setting goals for work
  • 14.00 Moving on too next phase of life for the shift in priorities
  • 17.00 Most memorable highs in Water Polo career
  • 21.00 What were the sort of emotions that came out of that?
  • 23.45 Water Polo was the bond and nationalities and medal colour didn’t matter
  • 25.25 Making rivals in the pool but becoming buddies outside of it
  • 28.00 Most difficult period in Water Polo
  • 30.55 Lowest points in life in sport happened at the young age of 13
  • 32.45 Bouncing back after 12 months of preparation work
  • 34.30 Visualisation on risk management of multiple scenarios used outside of Water Polo
  • 36.40 How high performance sport has influenced his professional and personal life currently?
  • 37.00 Learning to work with different personalities
  • 38.18 Goalsetting and time management
  • 39.00 Task oriented and setting priorities for maximum productivity
  • 41.20 Complimenting business partner with different skillsets
  • 44.00 What would he tell his younger self
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