Michael Phelps and Other Leaders on Finding Happiness: Stop Tying Your Self-Worth to Your Career Success (Video) Posted byHayden Field January 17, 2019 Leave a comment on Michael Phelps and Other Leaders on Finding Happiness: Stop Tying Your Self-Worth to Your Career Success (Video) ‘Being able to look at yourself and like who you see in the mirror — for so long, I never did,’ Phelps said. ‘I looked at myself as a swimmer, and that was it.’