I was scrolling through my jet-lagged feed at 3 AM, trying to find something to watch, when a short video clip from CCTV Sports popped up. It was Chen Yiwen, just after the women’s 3m springboard final at the National Games. She got third. Bronze. A fantastic result for most, right?
But her face in that interview—it wasn’t about disappointment over the color of the medal. It was something else. The reporter mentioned something about ‘using failure as a stimulus being cruel.’ And then Chen Yiwen said it, her voice steady but her eyes telling a different story: ‘What’s more cruel is failing and not even feeling that stimulus.’
That line hit me. It wasn’t about the scoreboard. It was about the internal meter, the one that measures if you touched your own ceiling that day. ‘The biggest impact isn’t this result,’ she continued, ‘it’s that I couldn’t bring out the best version of myself.’
It reminded me of my cousin, a pianist back home. He once messaged me after a recital, not about the applause, but about a single phrase in the second movement that felt ‘flat.’ ‘No one else noticed,’ he wrote, ‘but I knew. It just… didn’t soar.’ That’s the quiet torture of mastery. The gap between what you planned and what actually happened becomes your only reality.
Chen Yiwen’s ‘failure’ is on a global stage, under blinding lights and slow-motion replays. Our daily versions are smaller, but the feeling is a distant cousin. Like finally getting time to watch that highly recommended Chinese drama everyone’s talking about, only to be greeted by a cold, robotic error message: ‘This content is not available in your region.’
You’re not failing at diving, but you’re failing to connect. The stimulus—the excitement, the cultural thread, the simple joy of the show—is just out of reach. It’s a different kind of ‘not bringing out the best’ experience. The best, relaxed, connected version of your evening is blocked by digital borders.
Maybe that’s why Chen Yiwen’s words resonated beyond sports. It’s that universal itch of potential unmet, of a path blocked right where it was getting good. For her, it’s a twist in the air she’s done a thousand times. For us living abroad, it’s often a spinning buffer icon or an access denied page right at the climax.
So, after watching that interview, I didn’t just see an athlete analyzing a dive. I saw someone naming a very specific modern frustration: the agony of the barrier, whether it’s physical, mental, or geographical. It makes you want to find a way over, around, or through it, just to feel the stimulus of the full experience again.
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