Motivation Daily by Motiversity - NEVER GIVE UP - Best Motivational Speech (Featuring Valtteri Bottas)

Episode Date: January 31, 2024

"To Me It's About Working Harder Than Everyone Else." VALTTERI BOTTAS, F1 Driver.Catch the full interview on The Icons by Motiversity."To get to F1 you had to be competitive, you have to win all the important series, unless you come from a wealthy background, which I don't. To me it's working harder than anyone else." - Valtteri BottasSpeaker: Valtteri Bottashttps://valtteribottas.com/https://www.facebook.com/ValtteriBottas/https://twitter.com/ValtteriBottashttps://www.instagram.com/valtteribottas/Valtteri's Businesses:Oath Gin - https://oathgin.comIhana Wine - https://ihanawine.com/Kahiwa Coffee - https://www.instagram.com/kahiwacoffeeroastersLahti Pelicans Hockey Team - https://www.pelicans.fiInterviewed by: Tyler Wayehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3tWHKc-RcOeVlGyZQxtppQhttps://www.instagram.com/TylerWaye/https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerwaye/http://tylerwaye.com/Location: St. Regis Mexico Cityhttps://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/mexxr-the-st-regis-mexico-city/overview/MusicAudiojungle▶Subscribe for New Motivational Videos Every Week: http://bit.ly/MotivationVids▶DOWNLOAD our Top 100 Quotes of All Time:https://bit.ly/topquotesfreepdf▶JOIN our Newsletter for Exclusive Updates, Discounts, and Deals: https://bit.ly/Motiversitynewsletter▶READ our Weekly Blog:https://bit.ly/motiversityblog▶SHOP Official Motivational Canvases and Apparel:https://bit.ly/motiversityshop▶BECOME A MEMBER of our loyal community:https://bit.ly/motiversitymembers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The line will come very, very quickly. 200 races and 10 one-three victories. Bottas is finally top dog at a team. Foultry Bottas! Retakes the leader in Formula One. It's Valtory Bottas. When I look in the mirror, I know that I've done everything that I could, like I've given everything.

I've always tried to find something more and be the best person of myself. Lattery Votas! I actually remember saying myself, I'm the best in the world. I'm the best in the world. Like, I had that much confidence, like straight away. Like, I can do this. Bostasri takes the lead. You know, to get to Formula One,

you had to be competitive to show to the outside world and potential, sponsors, managers that you have the talent. And then in the junior category, basically you have to win all the important series. Otherwise, you have a slim chance of making it unless you come from... ...super wealthy background, which I don't. So I have to prove myself with talent. Valtry Bottas wins the season opener. For me, basically, is trying to work harder than anyone else.

Can we talk about fear? Is it a factor for you? In the car, never. If I'm just about the crash. let's say, I lost the back end of the car and I know that, okay, I'm going to that wall pass. That's uncomfortable and that could maybe be a bit of fear in there, like how much it can hurt. Touch a bit of water, runs a bit wide and boom. But for me, while I'm in control, no fear at all.

It's good times and bad times, but sure it's made me tougher. But what motivates me is the future because I still have my goals. I know that there's always ups and downs and the main thing for me is, remind myself what I still want out of the sport and that still eventually get back on the podium and and even winning. So that is my motivation when things are tough, I try to remind myself of both. Just like a switch. I was like, come on, I still got so much more. I want to achieve in sport and I don't want to give up now. Never give up. Eventually when I finish my F1 career that I did everything that I could, that I enjoyed it, that I can be proud of it.

You've had obviously, like, elite training for, you know, one of the highest intensity sports in the world. Most people won't have that in their life. But what would you say that you've learned through all of that that would be applicable to the everyday person? Through the training. Training or just life. Like, what do you think you've learned that would be really helpful for somebody who may not

encounter, again, elite stuff, but just looking to make goals happen in their life? I've definitely learned that sometimes I've overdone things like I pushed myself too hard. I've been in terms of my mental and physical capacity, I found my limits earlier in my career. It was only 2014. I managed to get myself into this like over-training syndrome. So just really the whole body was tired, stressed, not recovering anymore. I was training too much, eating too healthy or too little, let's just really. or too little, let's say.

And I found my limit. And as well, that was pretty good eye-opener mentally for me. Like, maybe I need to have something else sometimes than F-1 if I want to have a long career. Because, yes, you can have great career, but a short one, if you don't take care of yourself. If you're burning the candle from both ends, it's not sustainable.

So that's something I've learned. What does it take to be an F-1 driver? You need to be super patient, because to get to the point, get to become even a part of a Formula One team, it takes long, long time. I started racing when I was six years old. It's been a long, long journey. And you want things to happen quick, you want your career to progress quicker than it is always. So patience is one big thing when it comes to your career, when it comes to driving as well, to control yourself, your emotions, but also all the other stuff that is involved.

like you need to be able to deal with so much of like sponsor commitments and media is very present in this board right to the point of just before the race start you know so these kind of things you just need to kind of learn to handle with without compromising your performance in the car I think oftentimes it comes back down to that are you willing to outwork other people it's a pretty powerful thing yeah and even at this stage in your career do you feel like you still have that drive to outwork other people definitely like of course I um I've learned to work smarter, which sometimes means there are opportunities to save energy here and there, just to be able to perform even better on track. But you need to be in this sport,

especially the way it's evolved in terms of technology and data, you have to prioritize things. It's quite easy sport to overdo it as well. Like you start overworking or over trying. It's a fine line. So I think during my career, I've definitely learned that right balance. You know what's been interesting? It feels like in the last few years, I don't know if it's with email alpha or something else, but it feels like your personality is really coming through. What do you think that is? And I'd be curious, you know, what advice you have for others who feel like they're a bit trapped with their personality or feel like they can't really be themselves. But yeah, if you can describe maybe coming out a little bit with your,

Or do you show a little bit? It just happened. I mean, I think there was quite a clear correlation as well, like when I changed the teams, I had different targets in terms of more like progress and development and longer-term goals. For the first time, I had actually stability in Formula One, not just having one-year contracts. It just felt like it was a bit of weight of my shoulder. I said, okay, I've got this project. I'm motivated, even though I know I'm not probably for a while, I'm not going to win races,

but that was something new and exciting. And yeah, I think I just managed to not to take some things in life too seriously as well. I learned that, yeah, you know, yeah, life is not that serious sometimes. And also just not afraid to show my, like who I am to the people more, instead of being in a certain mold, what perhaps people would expect from you being an F1 driver and trying to win the championship. But I think it's just a combination of change of atmosphere

in terms of the team, working with new people. Also, I found a new life partner and stuff like that. It's just kind of, I'm just so comfortable with myself now. Yeah, some people might say, I look silly with my mustache and mallet, but I'm happy. When I look in the mirror, I'm like, nice.

And that's all what matters, right? Yeah, yeah, I dream with her like that. I feel like, yeah. Yeah, so it's just much more comfortable with myself. But I think it's a combination of experience, all this kind of thing. So, yeah. What about the skill set side? Like, what are the actual skills that allow you to be so good?

What does the training look like? It's a combination of skills, strength, and cardio. Really? Yeah. I mean, I would have guessed the core stuff, but the cardio, like, I mean, yeah, You're a cyclist. I know that you're fit. And even still, you say cardio is a big part of the bad.

It is really important, especially when the season goes long and longer, you know. Yeah. If you're a base fitness level, you're healthy towards the end of the year, you might have an advantage. And some extreme races like we had in Qatar, extreme temperatures, then you definitely have the upper hand if you have good cardio. Yeah, that race, I heard that race was. It was pretty brutal. Was it? Yeah, it was like working out in a sauna.

Really? For that long? Yeah. Wow. So on the physical side, I mean, I've never been in a car that fast. Other than the fact I probably just couldn't control it, but what would surprise me most physically? They're G-forces.

The amount of, like, example, when you, after a long straight, in that speed you have so much downforce that you can break so hard the car to stop so quickly. I think that would shock most people that on braking or in some high-skid corners, we have 5.5 G-forces. That means five and a half times your body weight that you would feel like moving around. And that corner after corner, a lap of the lab, plus the temperature, the mental focus, it is training. And I think that's the best way to explain it.

It's always hard to explain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To feel G forces, not many people can do it in their whole life, you know. Yeah. Yeah, I honestly wouldn't. I mean, I can do the math in my head that must feel heavy, you know, really throw you around. but I've no idea with that I actually feel like. And then I have no idea what that would feel like for a couple hours.

Where it's like I actually don't know if I've ever concentrated that hard for that long. Like where there's nothing else. There must be nothing else in your world for those couple hours. Is that true? For sure. You have to be in the moment. And I think those are again the basic skills when you, what you learn from Go cards from Junior Formula.

That focus is the key. You know, you can't think of anything else. And it's an incredible like, Nowadays it's actually not really allowed to measure your heart rate, but in some testing and some junior categories, without being measuring my heart rate, when it's that one qualifying lab, even though you're working physically as hard as pretty much any other lap, but your heart rate just goes through the roof because of the mental strength and the focus. Like you're using your whole brain capacity for that one lap, and that's, yeah, you need really strong head for the sport. I've always loved to challenge myself and have a certain goal and push for it.

Of course, by far, Formula One is the number one thing. And I still have all my number one goals is within Formula One. But when you have those, you know, your summer break or your weekends, weeks off or weekends off, it's a nice thing to have, you know, something else. And I just love sports. I love the feeling it gives you. And also mentally, I've found cycling. great way for me to disconnect from F1.

Again, a bit like going for a hike in a forest in Finland. It's a bit like, yeah, you get out on your bike, the mountains or gravel roads, and you can just really get a bit bigger view of the world, of the life, and remind yourself of the simple things in life. So successful F1 driver, entrepreneur, cycling, business person. It's a big question, but what's next? We're in Mexico, so tacos.