 Good evening, nice to be here Now, how do you define passion for a very long time? I thought that passion is like being in love It's like the first thing you think in the middle of the night when you wake up when your heart beats faster and life has more meaning I Considered myself an ordinary person, you know real passions. They just don't find me I have a lot of hobbies and I do them all on the surface never diving very deep And this is how I started carting a Couple of years ago. My friends invited me to join to build up a carting team all we wanted were cool clothes Killer selfies and maybe participate in Helsinki. Hopefully Well, next thing I know we are in a factory Shopping for spare parts in Italy and we behave like kids in a toy store And next thing we do we go to the nearby track in Migliaro and we try to build our carts I must say we were complete amateurs We came to the track, you know with the books and we watched YouTube videos of how to build a cart Everyone every single one in that pit. They were laughing at us, but we sort of loved back arrogantly Watching all those middle-aged men Who spent all of their free time just building tiny cars? Well, it happens so that a Finnish pro driver and his mechanic were at the track with us at the same time and I think out of pity They helped us a lot in the beginning. You know how really big ideas sometimes are born on restaurant napkins, right? So those guys observed me struggling and struggling took me to the nearby cafe and said Anna. This is how you drive Here I framed that napkin to memorize the glorious moment. Oh when I got my driving line But it was only the start Next thing I know I'm going and I'm driving to La Penranta to the Finnish professional championship to the first race of the season To help my friend with the mechanical things Do you know what I feel? I'm in love with motorsports. Of course ever since Leo Kinnonen the first fin Everyone in the world knows Finnish formula one drivers, right? We follow their posh lifestyle champagne on yachts Private jets they meet celebrities small and big and I imagine myself Maybe if not like a great driver or mechanic, I think maybe I'm gonna be a pit girl one day because why not? And I'm just in love with this image. My passion found me. I thought oh my god I wasted so many years, but this is gonna be my life from now on and there There I arrived to La Penranta Kimi circuit And it looks like this it is literally in the middle of the forest It's a rusty gate. No security. There is a metal junk a pile of tires and it's Finland Okay, no one looks me in the eye Not even talking to me and This is not what I imagined for myself There was something to process And I did process it. In fact, I followed Finnish championship for the whole summer that year And I learned a lot about karting I learned that karting is 80% about tuning and only 10% 20% about driving Because even if you're a very good driver, it is always a combination. It is you and the cart So the number of variables that have to work out It is so Insanely big that it requires a very impressive mechanical talent Karting is also a hole in the pocket. No matter how much you spend you keep on spending more and in a professional league Just in Finland you easily end up in five digit numbers But the energy The energy of those people it is electric. I got completely hooked Even though, you know, some of those guys might not have impressive University degrees they might be not Korea ambitious They're all united with this one passion for motorsport. They live in this world with its own secret language Some mechanics are so good. They can tell what is wrong with an engine just by the sound of it on a certain turn of the track I was mesmerized By their professionalism. In fact, I became passionate about all those people Well fair to say, you know, these all didn't come from nowhere There is something about driving that I truly love Beat the sound of an engine or this feeling of control over the mechanism Or the state of active meditation when it is you car the road and maybe the next turn So when everyone around me is excited about autonomous driving I'm not In fact, I'm scared because I know how much I will lose My friends who know me they will say I'm a sad kid But I tried and tried and tried to understand why In the forest on a carting track why this moment made me so honestly happy Well through carting I understood that passion is very very hard work And it's all about persistence But it is not necessarily about just one activity It is rather those small moments that make you stay in the moment and enjoy oneself at fullest Feel more alive and connected to others So knowing that now I wish every single one of you today Find those moments that work for you in this way and be passionate about life. Thank you