Meet the person you could have been: What a $150B CEO does on weekends

What drives someone who's already built a $60B company? Tobi Lutke, Shopify's CEO, spends his weekends endurance racing. But not for the reasons you'd think.

"I've never been externally motivated," he says. "I've always been internally motivated. I just believe [in the end] you meet the person you could have been. The point is to try to minimize the difference."

Think about that for a second. There's a version of you out there - the person you're capable of becoming. And the work is closing that gap.

For Tobi, racing becomes his laboratory. Immediate feedback on every decision. The chance to practice operating at 99.99% of what's possible.

"It's Zen Buddhism at 200 miles per hour," he says. "You're connected to the ground through four playing card-sized contact patches. That's all."

Most of us never find that kind of practice space. Where you can rehearse excellence. Where you discover what you're actually capable of when everything's on the line.

The key? Find something that genuinely fascinates you. Tobi could have chosen any hobby, but racing captivated him.

That part about fascination? I think it's underestimated. It's what makes Tobi push to 99.99% and keeps him coming back.

It's also what keeps him paying it forward. As he says, "You cultivate your sets of skills and then along the way you share them."

The racing is just his method. The real work is meeting who you're becoming.

Speaking of meeting who you're becoming - I'm building the places where we practice becoming that person.