Attention
August 7, 2023
Your attention is one of your most valuable assets. How do you protect and maximize it behind the wheel?
Your attention is one of your most valuable assets. How do you protect and maximize it behind the wheel?
“’In terms of how people react to art or entertainment, you learn that it sometimes goes well and it sometimes doesn’t. It doesn’t mean that the cause and effect are connected.’ That’s a quote from renowned actor/director Ben Stiller. Obviously, he’s talking about art and entertainment here, but I think there are some obvious (and perhaps, not so obvious) parallels to our own form of performance on the race track.”
What separates Peter Biondo from Peter Piper? Mental toughness. In this episode, I discuss how some of the best racers in our sport deal with overcoming mistakes, and how it may be one of their greatest advantages.
Flexibility, or “versatility” is one of the common traits among the greats in our sport. Does driving a variety of cars and competing in different classes make us better drivers? In this episode, I answer this question with some recent experience in my own vehicles.
In this age, it’s easier – more natural than ever – to judge ourselves and our racing in comparison to others. Between social media, live feeds, and frankly people like Jed and I, It’s so easy to put successful racers on a pedestal:
Racer X wins, and is never worse than 010 on the tree for 9 straight rounds.
Racer Y dominates, holding .06 or more.
Racer Z’s matched the dial in 8 times in 9 rounds.
And we think…
Damn.
I can’t do that!
Very selfishly, part of this podcast is for my own benefit: as I work through some of these ideas in the process of my own day-to-day life.
On our way here, not even halfway through our trip, our new (to us) motorhome broke down. It was certainly not the way that things were planned!
The reason I share this, not to pat myself on the back, is because I’m actually really proud of the way that I handled this situation.