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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport Toto Wolff on Risk, Innovation, and Winning

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This conversation is with Toto Wolff. If you follow Formula One, you know what Toto has helped build over the past handful of years. He's an owner and the Executive Director of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team - along with wider responsibilities as Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport. Formula One is known as the tip of the arrow when it comes to motorsports -- their cars are the fastest road course racing cars in the world, being able to maintain very high cornering speeds (pulling 6g's) by generating incredible amounts of aerodynamic down force. They race at speeds of up to approximately 230 MPH. Toto is a father, husband, and businessman. He knows risk. He knows innovation. And he knows winning. Under his leadership, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport has clinched a hat-trick of Formula One World Championships, winning a total of six titles and more than 50 Grand Prix since 2014. The reason I wanted to have the conversation with Toto is because he has an incredible way about how he see's organizational success -- how he balances the financial tension between innovation and risk and how he works with highly talented drivers and engineers and ultimately -- I wanted to understand what is at the center of his relentless drive…..and….how exactly does someone become able to be an owner of a Formula One team (let alone the Mercedes team). This conversation is loaded….Hope you enjoy and are able to put at least one of insights in the conversation into action. Oh, by the way, Toto speaks fluent German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

My experience with high-performing individuals is that the very last percentage of high-performance

0:09.4

is that they either suffered trauma or humiliation or both.

0:15.0

Because what would justify to develop that above average drive? developed that All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay.

0:37.0

And the idea behind these conversations is to learn. To learn from people who are on the path of mastery who have dedicated their life efforts to understand

0:46.2

the nuances of their craft and the nuances of how the self develops.

0:52.3

And we really want to dig to work to understand their

0:54.8

psychological framework, which is a fancy phrase for their worldview and how they

0:59.6

understand their craft and how they understand people work.

1:03.0

And then we want to dig under the surface a little further

1:06.0

and see if we can understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft.

1:11.0

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1:25.6

and the days that you feel sharp

1:27.4

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If you've ever had days where you felt tired or stressed or

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