Nathaniel Zinsser: Mentoring Winners Futurehealth Plenary Talk by Nate Zinsser Through many years of mentoring athletes and other performers three vital lessons consistently surface as essential to success and satisfaction. These lessons will be will be explained and illustrated using examples from the 2000 US Olympic Trials and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. In brief, the lessons are: 1) It's all about confidence 2) The higher the level at which you compete, the "lower" many things become 3) The difference between victory and defeat is microscopically small