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The 2016 Next Generation Leaders on how they overcome obstacles in their careers._ by [Simone Biles](https://time.com/author/simone-biles/) ## Simone Biles Mar 25, 2016 11:00 AM UTC The 2016 Next Generation Leaders on how they overcome obstacles in their careers. by [Simone Biles](https://time.com/author/simone-biles/) ## Simone Biles Mar 25, 2016 11:00 AM UTC Expectations can be good and bad, but I like to focus on how previous success gives you the confidence to know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to. I went into the last world championships having won it the previous two years—so everyone was pressuring me to get the three-peat. That really stressed me out and made me nervous; I didn’t want to disappoint anyone. The stress got to me, and going into the last two events was hard. But I remembered that I had done my routines so many times, and I sat down and took a moment for myself. I went through my routines and tried not to overthink them. I just focused on my goals and didn’t worry about what others thought. I did end up winning and am proud of what I accomplished, but I am not satisfied. I am aware that there are expectations with this being an [Olympic year](http://motto.time.com/4246643/nastia-liukin-olympic-commentator-prep/?iid=sr-link1), but I have high expectations for myself and that is all I can control. Something that has helped me in dealing with that pressure is remembering that gymnastics is just one part of my life, so I just embrace it and have fun. I always focus on staying consistent with my training, hitting all of my routines, contributing to Team USA as much as I possibly can and having fun with the girls. “I have to win this” is never a thought in my mind when I compete, it’s more about the goals I have set for myself and that’s what makes me happy. **_Read more:_** [_This is How Successful People Respond to Criticism_](http://motto.time.com/4268005/successful-people-respond-criticism/) Another thing I do to try to keep high expectations from psyching me out is to block out all the pressure. My parents always told me, “No matter what you go out and do, it’s not a big deal.” They told me, “Don’t worry about what everyone else thinks, and just do what you know you can do—don’t focus on what everyone else is saying. You’re the only one who can go out and do it.” _Simone Biles is the three-time World All-Around champion and four-time United States National All-Around champion._ ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] I think obstacles in my career, in getting where I've gotten today, I think it's sort of fear. You doubt yourself too much, you freeze. If you let those thoughts come into your head I think that can be sort of the anti greater. Let's [ UNKNOWN ] gonna say I realize that I will have to go and sell the things that I will make in the labs, so really trying sales and marketing was a big learning, a big step I just tell my self to do what I do in practice and and just go there an have fun I have to leave my country. I have to leave, because they told my family, if he didn't leave, he will get [ UNKNOWN ] again. And then I left my country, and I start from zero again, so I start. I don't know where I have to go and don't have a job. I start to sleeping in Park in Istanbul. I try to find a place. I try to find a job. Me doing my first play. It was something that I was always terrified to do and I'm delighted now that I'm Thomas. Fundraising, for example, has been a huge challenge for us. Because you're competing with 100s, if not 1000s of incredible organizations out there, that are doing meaningful impactful work. In climbing you face all these problems. and the challenges to overcome them and get to the top. So, I feel like climbing has like taught me to be calm and relax. When I try to overcome something that's troubling me. People not taking it seri Seriously. People not thinking of us as being legitimate or thinking of our fight to stop the incinerator as some cute after school hobby. Even though it was not just a hobby. It was an act of survival that we recognized and that we knew that we had to take action. 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