George Russell - From penpal to podium: how one email changed my life (E163)

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

George Russell is a British racing driver, currently competing in Formula 1 for Mercedes. In this conversation, George reveals why he gave up formal education at 14 to pursue racing; he shares how he first made contact with Toto Wolff and he speaks about the dangerous crash he was in and the impact it has had on him.

An advocate of surrounding yourself with positivity, making hard choices and creating opportunities, there is a lot to learn from George’s attitude which can be taken into all areas of life.

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0:00.0	Hi there I'm Jay Humphrey and you're listening to High Performance. Don't forget we're coming on tour in 2023.
0:08.0	If you want to see our brand new live theatre show, just go to the high performance podcast.com. Now this
0:15.3	podcast reminds you that it's within your ambition, your purpose, your
0:19.5	story are all there. We just help unlock it by turning the lived experiences of the
0:24.6	planet's highest performers into your life lessons. So right now allow myself and
0:29.2	Professor Damien Hughes to speak to one of the greatest sports stars on the planet so that he can be your
0:35.9	teacher. Today this awaits you.
0:40.3	I'd never crashed at that speed before doing 330 kilometers an hour.
0:47.0	DRS open, got on a wet patch of a car just spun.
0:51.0	I'm going sideways down the track, carbon fiber flying everywhere. I can't see to my right
0:56.6	because you're kind of locked in the cockpit. I don't know what I'm going to hit and I'm sort of
1:00.8	bracing for impact. You have to find your own successes, you know, I would celebrate when I was only half a second away from 18th from the grid
1:12.0	rather than being a second away because that was relative
1:15.4	success and for me that was kind of like a pole position there is no one path to
1:20.6	success I think you need to find your own path, your own journey, you need to have that
1:26.7	self-belief that even if somebody is going down a certain path, you need to follow your own course and you need to do what is best for you.
1:35.6	Oh, I can't tell you what I'll call episode this is. Man, this is the truth behind Mercedes Formula One
1:41.7	driver, George Russell.
1:44.0	I think that we all have an opinion, right, of people who compete at the very top level.
1:47.0	And I think all too often in the modern world, we have an opinion that it's easy.
1:51.0	Because look at what is in front of us all the time
1:53.7	perfection whether it is seeing George Russell beat Lewis Hamilton as he did this
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