E93 - Mark Webber: Why grit is an essential element of high performance
The High Performance Podcast
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🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Our special guest this week is nine-time Grand Prix winner and FIA World Endurance Champion, Mark Webber. Listen to his conversation with Jake and Damian about the importance of consistency, organisation, reliability and always staying true to yourself.
Mark has worked in some of the greatest, and most challenging, high performing cultures in the world. Despite the glamorous trappings and lifestyle of F1, Mark has stayed true to his laid-back Aussie roots and traditions.
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| 0:00.0 | This is High Performance, Agif to you, for free every week. |
| 0:05.4 | This is the podcast that turns the lived experience of the planet's highest |
| 0:08.7 | performance into your life lessons. |
| 0:11.5 | So today allow the greatest leaders, thinkers, sports stars, entertainers and |
| 0:16.0 | entrepreneurs to be your teacher. Today this awaits you. |
| 0:22.1 | Do the basics brilliant and you're you know I mean it sounds pathetic but |
| 0:25.6 | actually consistently having those really good little preparation |
| 0:29.2 | tricks in the background and another great line for them. |
| 0:32.3 | Average is easy, that's why it's popular. It's easy to be average. |
| 0:35.5 | I think staying presence important. I think you know people can take baggage on for |
| 0:38.8 | the future and and really oh what's going to happen next November? I'm not sure. |
| 0:43.6 | Well maybe give 100% today you know you're a good chance it's going to be okay. |
| 0:49.5 | People talk about sacrifices is the word that I hate. |
| 0:52.4 | I made all these sacrifices. Well you know for me it was all upside. |
| 0:57.0 | You know people say you did so with all these sacrifices and it's bullshit |
| 1:00.8 | because you've got to step up and this is you know for me it was all like this is |
| 1:06.1 | all upside. Every single thing if I nail this it's not a sacrifice. It's like you |
| 1:11.3 | know it was just something that needed to be done. |
| 1:14.8 | So now when I went on this training camp and I got smoked like I weren't |
| 1:18.0 | altitude in Austria and like they're skiing and they're doing these walks and |
| 1:21.0 | I'm just like oh god these and all these Europeans are flying and I'm like this |
| 1:24.4 | is never ever ever going to happen again ever in my life that I'm going to be |
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