After all, Shiffrin isn’t a robot

After her second consecutive quick exit from her best two events, at the Beijing Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin showed the world that she wasn't a robot, but just human, with all what that means in terms of mind-control, self-doubt and emotions.

No one is totally sheltered from those, or can find a mental coach that can totally shove them aside. 

There’s also the undeniable fact that we all learn more from failures than from victories, so in the end, she'll emerge from that series of incidents as an even better person and a much more solid athlete. 

For all of us who are older, at the end of one’s life, it almost seems that the thrills of success are somehow paid up, along the way, by an equal amount of pain, sorrow and suffering, through the obstacles that inevitably are thrown in one’s way. 

When all is said and done, Mikaela is perhaps be the best prepared individual to bounce back and recover her true strength.