Mark Webber: Why grit is an essential element of high performance (E93)

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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, our gift to you for free every week.
0:05.0	This is the podcast that turns the lived experience of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons.
0:11.0	So today allow the greatest leaders, thinkers, sports stars, entertainers
0:15.8	and entrepreneurs to be your teacher. Today this awaits you.
0:21.1	Do the basics brilliant and you're you know I mean it sounds pathetic but actually consistently
0:26.6	having those really good little preparation tricks in the background and another great
0:31.8	line for them average is easy that's why it's popular.
0:34.0	It's easy to be average. I think staying present is important. I think people can take baggage on for the future and really
0:41.4	what's going to happen next November? I'm not sure. Well, if you give 100% today,
0:45.8	you know, you're a good chance it's going to be okay.
0:48.6	People talk about sacrifices, is a word that I hate. I made all these sacrifices. There's a word that I hate. Oh, I made all these sacrifices.
0:54.0	Well, you know, for me it was all upside.
0:57.0	You know, people say, oh, you did so well with all these sacrifices.
1:00.0	I was bullshit because you've got to step up and this is you know for me it was all like this is all
1:06.3	upside every single thing if I nail this it's not a sacrifice it's like you know it was
1:12.0	just something that needed to be done.
1:14.0	So I went on this training camp and I got smoked like I were in altitude in Austria and
1:19.4	like they're skiing and they're doing these walks and I'm just like,
1:21.8	God, these and all these Europeans are flying and I'm like this is never ever ever going to happen again ever in my life that I'm going to be exposed in something I can control and I can put the work in and from that day I just said you know bring those type of
1:36.9	environments on. I'm so excited for you to hear this conversation. Mark Weber is today's guest.
1:44.5	He was a whisker away from winning the Formula One
1:46.7	World Championship in 2010.
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