Motivation Daily by Motiversity - NEVER GIVE UP | F1 Driver Valtteri Bottas Best Motivational Speech

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Starting point is 00:00:51 You know, you need to have the right attitude to work hard. Valtery Bottas, Valtery Bottas. Races can go up to two hours. It's a combination of skills, strength and carbonic. If I want to make it, I need to make this completely the priority. For me, while I'm in control, no fear at all. Does it hurt? It's a fresh.

Starting point is 00:01:12 Yeah. It's absolutely top speaking, 295 kilometers per hour. It hurts. I think my biggest crash was 52G, in terms of the impact. It does hurt, yeah. Whoa. Just always tried everything, always tried to find something more and be the best first of myself sometimes. It's good times, not bad times, but I'm sure it's made me tougher. Now I have to show what I can do and I'm glad at it.

Starting point is 00:01:37 He wins it! By a distance! Yes! Yeah guys. Thank you. It was good. You need to be super patient because to get to the point, get to become even a part of the Formula One team, it takes a long, long time. I started racing when all six years old.

Starting point is 00:01:58 So it's been a long, long journey. And you want things to happen quick. You want to 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. I've definitely learned that sometimes I've overdone things. Like I pushed myself too hard. In terms of my mental and physical capacity,

Starting point is 00:02:25 I found my limits earlier in my career. it was only 2014 I managed to get myself into this like overtraining syndrome so just really the whole body was tired stressed, was not recovering anymore I was training too much eating too healthy or too little

Starting point is 00:02:44 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 F1 if I want to have long career because yes you can have great career but a short one if you don't take care of yourself.

Starting point is 00:03:00 Yeah, having to be in the support role that was hard to accept and definitely lost the confidence, especially towards the end of the year, to a point that winter I was this close of retiring for the whole sport and to walk away from F1. Really? Yeah. So that was pretty deep.

Starting point is 00:03:19 And now when I look back at it, it almost looks and feels a bit like silly. But when you're in your thoughts, and not in a good mindset, yeah, things can be tricky. Then I decided to go alone, not with my partner, alone to have a wall in the forest, a bit of like a hike in the snow, which I sometimes do. But I felt like it could be nice, get some fresh air

Starting point is 00:03:44 and just be wandering there myself alone, two, three hours. And that's when I, I don't know, I just found the confidence again. And I, yeah, all the things that, I had achieved previously, like, you know, the wins I managed to still get to that point. The pole-boschino labs, some good race results. All that just came to my mind, and I actually remember saying myself, I'm the best in the world. Like, I had that much confidence, like, straight away.

Starting point is 00:04:15 Like, I can do this. Whether we're talking about small mistake or a big mistake, let's say on a qualifying lap, the first corner you have this little bit of a lock-up of the tire, you lose the line a bit. You have to be able to forget that immediately because if you keep thinking about it that I need to recover it in the next corners, that's your lap done, ruined.

Starting point is 00:04:38 Nothing good will come out of it. So it's a certain skill that you need in this sport to be able to deal with those mistakes, whether it's a small or big one. And I think in that thing for me, what's the most important is to be self-honest and accepting it. Okay, yeah, I messed up.

Starting point is 00:04:56 and what's the best thing next that I can do? Usually it is to understand the mistake what happened. How can I prevent it from happening again? And then move on. Then don't look back. For sure, you have to be in the moment. And I think those are, again, the basic skills when you learn from Go-Cards on Junior Formula.

Starting point is 00:05:17 That focus is the key. You know, you can't think of anything else, but your heart rate just goes through the rule because of the mental strength and the focus. using your whole brain capacity for that one lap and that's yeah you need really strong head for this. Really focusing on the things that matter. So obviously anything outside yeah you don't really think about who's watching the race, who's present, what's happened the night before, how was the morning you have no clue about that what day or the week it is normally

Starting point is 00:05:51 Sunday but you know those kind of things just doesn't matter. You also focusing on One thing at a time and sometimes obviously you have to focus on multiple things when you're racing But example before the race start the only thing you think about is that race starts a good reaction to the lights Then next thing is yeah the drive-out phase now quickly you get on power then is where to find the right gap and it's just one thing after another How do you handle that pressure? For me it has become a bit of a routine I'm obviously still super exciting and I'm just a written by my own goals and that kind of tends to cut out all the outside pressure and I tend to not overthink things too much and I think that also comes with the more years ago in sport the more

Starting point is 00:06:37 comfortable you are with the fact that it is only 20 drivers in the world and everyone is being looked into very detail all your mistakes and all these things and you just learn to live with it then almost but not to care about the other stuff and you learn to focus on yourself and your performance and you were developing. Especially earlier in the career when you are really trying to make it, then for me basically is trying to work harder than anyone else. That was always part of it. And still is. Obviously now at a certain point of your career, you start to have more capacity. But at some point you also realize what is sustainable if you want a long career and what is it? Like there's a limit on how much Formula One can be, let's say, controlling your life.

Starting point is 00:07:23 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 definitely learned that right balance. For me, the hardest lesson probably has been not to beat up myself too much. Like I think, especially earlier in my career, I was way too self-critical. Of course you need a certain element of to be cricket and critical enough.

Starting point is 00:07:53 but not that it actually starts to drag you down, that yourself is about to drag you down. I think that's something I learned over the years, over the ups and downs, that find that happy medium, and also dealing with mistakes and setbacks. Everything that I'm involved now is purely passion. Easiest ways to explain that all the things

Starting point is 00:08:10 that I've decided to get involved with, I feel like I'm getting energy on working on those things because I'm really interested in those things. And instead of wasting energy, it's like giving me energy. And again, back to the sustainability in terms of your career, your energy levels. I feel like it's a great balancing factor for me, like when I have free time. I've always been in life, tried to follow my passions.

Motivation Daily by Motiversity - NEVER GIVE UP | F1 Driver Valtteri Bottas Best Motivational Speech

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