- Ollie Bearman explained that preparation matters but cannot replace the instinct built through years of experience.
- WallStreetBets and Nuseir agreed that pressure is a signal worth chasing, not managing away, and that making it public multiplies its power.
- Nuseir said the biggest obstacle to radical change is not the market or the technology, it is the people closest to you.
Zoomex hosted F1 driver vs crypto traders X Spaces, bringing together Haas F1 driver Ollie Bearman, crypto market commentator WallStreetBets, and content creator Nuseir Yassin. Fernando Lillo, head of marketing at Zoomex, moderated both sessions. Bearman joined from Monaco ahead of race weekend, while the conversation with WallStreetBets and Nuseir continued into a deeper discussion on AI, ambition, pressure, and what it actually takes to change your life.
The session explored what separates talented people from consistent ones, across fields that look different but share the same logic, fast decisions, accumulated instinct, and a tolerance for pressure that most people spend their careers trying to reduce.
What Happens in the Seconds Before the Start
Lillo opened by asking each speaker what happens in the moments before everything begins, before the lights go out, before the trade executes, before the upload goes live.
Bearman’s answer started with preparation and quickly moved to something harder to teach.
“I always feel the best when I’ve done my homework. The more homework I’ve done, the easier it is to be prepared and not have any question marks or nerves when I get in the car.”
The pressure itself, he added, is not the issue. He has been racing since the age of six, and by now it feels more natural than its absence. “It’s almost more strange to not have pressure than to have pressure,” he said.
For WallStreetBets, the equivalent moment is the second before clicking buy. Even after years of repetition, one feeling always remains.
“One second before I’m buying something, I’m always hesitating. Am I actually buying this?”
Nuseir framed his version through a T-shirt printed with the percentage of his expected lifespan already lived. Before committing to anything that costs time, he applies one filter.
“Before I start any project that takes time of my life, I ask myself: is this worth a percentage of my life? If it is, then I do it. If it’s not, then I don’t.”
Plans Break. Instinct Fills the Gap.
When Lillo asked how Bearman handles unpredictable moments mid race, Bearman described the gap between preparation and what actually happens on track.
A driver enters a race with a plan. The plan rarely survives contact with the field. The real skill is knowing what to do once it breaks.
“In the end, you cannot be prepared for every situation. There are often things that come up which you are not ready for. In that case, you need to rely on your talent, your instincts, and the correct instincts to do well.”
He gave the 24-race season as a frame. Executing the original plan in even one race across a full calendar is a good result. The other 23 require adaptation.
This quality cannot be taught quickly. It comes from accumulating thousands of laps across fifteen years. The adaptability Bearman has today is not a natural default, it is what experience builds.
The Most Expensive Mistakes Taught the Most
Lillo asked each speaker to name their biggest recent mistake. All three answered without hesitation.
For Bearman, the mindset around mistakes is the lesson itself.
“Mistakes are part of the journey, and I’m never afraid to make a mistake because it teaches you the most. The most important thing is to never repeat them.”
He connected that approach to where he is in his career, still young, still accumulating laps, still finding what the car and the track will teach him.
WallStreetBets described watching a SpaceX-linked ticker run purely on narrative momentum. The move seemed irrational. He hesitated. The trade ran without him.
“Sometimes you think that things are so dumb and you shouldn’t actually buy it, but then eventually it just pumps really hard, and you understand that you don’t even have to hesitate.”
His takeaway: when a narrative is already in motion, the analysis window has closed. Hesitation is the error.
Nuseir’s mistake was structural. After years based in Dubai with no tax liability, he relocated to the United States without adjusting his tax residency. The consequence was financial and avoidable.
“Rebasing is the key word,” he said.
A planning failure, not an execution one. The move was right. The preparation around it was not.
The Fear of Being Left Behind
When the conversation shifted to current challenges, Nuseir did not hesitate.
“My biggest problem now is feeling left behind, and society is going faster than I can keep up, specifically the AI industry.”
He described spending years getting on top of crypto, only to watch AI emerge as an entirely new industry requiring the same level of mastery. The threshold keeps rising. In his view, anyone who does not commit serious time to understanding the technology risks permanent displacement.
The upside, he said, is that the most valuable intersection has not yet been unlocked.
“Whoever figures out how to merge AI and crypto together will definitely make at least a million dollars, if not build a billion-dollar company.”
He pointed to the combination of AI agents, blockchains, and micro-transactions as a space where something significant is forming but has not yet emerged clearly.
WallStreetBets shared the concern and reframed it toward adaptation.
“AI can replace all of us. There is no question about it. You always need to be tapped into what’s going on and how you can leverage it, in trading, in research, whatever.”
The traders who survive the transition, he argued, will be the ones who learn to use AI as a research layer rather than resist it. He uses it himself, though he stopped short of naming specific tools publicly.
Pressure Is a Drug, Not a Warning Sign
When Lillo asked what destroys performance, pressure, ego, fear, distraction, alcohol, drugs, WallStreetBets gave an unexpected answer.
“I’m a big fan of pressure. Pressure is like a drug. I can’t even explain how much I love pressure. Every time, every day, it drives me so much.”
He extended that into advice for younger people. His recommendation was not to manage pressure but to seek it deliberately. Putting yourself in extreme situations early accelerates growth in ways that comfortable environments cannot match.
Nuseir agreed and added a practical method: make the pressure public.
“Commit publicly to something, not just privately. When you have public pressure — societal pressure — you actually do it.”
He used his own record as proof. He committed publicly to making 1,000 videos in 1,000 days. Each video cost roughly 15 hours of work. He uploaded even on the days when nobody was watching, because the public commitment would not let him stop.
He also offered what he called a controversial framing on the subject.
“Pressure means you care. If you don’t feel pressure, it simply means you do not care. Whatever has important outcomes, you feel it in your stomach.”
WallStreetBets added the balance. Pressure requires management alongside performance. Rest and reflection are not signs of weakness — they are what allows the pressure to keep working. “It’s more about how you actually manage it and how it pushes you further,” he said.
When Ambition Stops Being an Asset
Lillo asked when ambition becomes ego, and whether the line between them is visible from the inside.
Nuseir answered through his own trajectory. Reaching 10 million followers immediately reset the target to 20 million. When that came, the reference point shifted to creators with 100 million.
“When you feel like you made it, there’s another mountain top. You always feel behind.”
He said he has grown accustomed to that feeling. It does not disappear with success. It just resets higher.
WallStreetBets described ambition as something that does not allow pauses.
“This ambition just doesn’t let you stop or even think for a moment. You need to have a delusion if you want to win.”
Nuseir added a risk that rarely gets named openly. The more success he accumulated, the worse version of himself he became, while the people around him quietly adjusted. Jokes that were not funnier got more laughs. Disagreements softened into agreement. He called it a Truman Show dynamic.
“Success is dangerous because it can get to your head. You want to make sure there are people next to you who don’t let you go full Truman Show.”
The protection, in his view, is keeping people close who hold you accountable and do not reshape themselves around your status.
If You Lost Everything Tomorrow
Lillo tested each speaker with the same scenario. If you lost everything tomorrow, what would be your first move?
Bearman pointed to his age. He is young, has talent, and has options.
“I would do my very best to use my talent in my sport, which is to come back as soon as possible. I’m still very young, so I’m lucky to have age on my side.”
He also mentioned a secondary path. Several members of his family work in finance, and he has already started exploring trading on his own.
WallStreetBets said he would not change the approach. The process is built and tested. Losing capital would reset the starting point, not the method. “I’ve done it for such a long time,” he said. “I won’t do anything other.”
Nuseir was direct. If the audience was built once, it can be rebuilt.
“The fastest way in the world to get it back is through the internet.”
Radical Advice for a 20-Year-Old
When Lillo asked what each speaker would tell a 20-year-old starting out, both answered with conviction.
WallStreetBets kept it short: put yourself under pressure and go learn AI.
Nuseir went further. His advice was designed to be uncomfortable.
“Be single. Change your friends if you still have high school friends. Commit to a frequency of upload on the internet — preferably X, not TikTok. Do AI content or crypto content. And once you get your first million dollars or million followers, then you can develop a new set of friends, then you can develop a relationship.”
He said high school friendships hold people back not through bad intentions but because the people in them are not changing in the same direction. A network built on history rather than shared ambition limits the decisions you can make.
The instruction to stay single came from his own experience. When he left his job in New York and flew to Kenya to start making videos, a relationship would have made that move impossible.
“We don’t understand how much our friends and our relationships hold us back from making radical changes.”
He acknowledged that this calculus shifts with age and context. A committed partner who moves in the same direction is a different situation entirely. But at 20, before the path is clear, fewer constraints means faster movement.
His final point had nothing to do with money or followers. If there is one habit that quietly destroys performance while being normalized as social necessity, he said, it is alcohol. He stopped. He never started coffee. Both slow things down in ways most people do not track carefully enough.
The Biggest Lie
Lillo shifted to a more direct question. What is the biggest lie young people tell themselves?
WallStreetBets answered without hesitation. “That it’s too complicated. There are no problems. There are just features.” The framing matters. Calling something a problem gives it a kind of permanence. Calling it a feature makes it something to work with.
Nuseir went somewhere different. His answer was specific and, by his own description, something he arrived at too late.
“The biggest lie 18-year-olds tell themselves is that they need to drink alcohol to have fun, make friends, or date people.”
He said this quietly but clearly. Not as moralising, but as a practical observation from his own trajectory. The social cost of not drinking felt real at the time. In retrospect, the performance cost of drinking was higher. He stopped. He also never started coffee. Both, in his view, are normalised dependencies that slow things down in ways most people do not track carefully enough.
Fear of Failure or Success
When Lillo asked which was more dangerous, fear of failure or fear of success, the answers diverged.
WallStreetBets named failure. Not failure as an event, but as a permanent condition. “I always have the fear of being average. The fear that I’m not doing my best to reach my potential.” The real fear is not losing. It is finding out that you did not fully try.
Nuseir took the counterposition. Success, he argued, is the more dangerous of the two and the less discussed.
“When you succeed, you become a different person. I saw that the more I succeeded, I kind of became a worse version of myself.”
Failure tends to produce self-examination. Success tends to produce insulation. The danger is not arrogance but gradual disconnection, from honest feedback, from people who will tell you when you are wrong, from the version of yourself that was still hungry enough to be corrected.
The two positions are not contradictory. Fear of failure drives the engine. Awareness of success’s distortions keeps the steering wheel honest.
What Zoomex Is Building Next
Toward the end of the session, Lillo shared an announcement. Zoomex is launching a prediction market in partnership with Polymarket, with an initial focus on the FIFA World Cup and planned expansion into macroeconomic events, Formula One, and tennis.
Nuseir responded immediately. “Wow. That’s huge. Congratulations.” He confirmed he would try it for the World Cup.
When asked which national team they would back, WallStreetBets said Argentina without pause. Nuseir committed to the underdog, whoever reaches the final as the lower-ranked side. “Smart thinking,” Lillo said. Nuseir did not disagree.
The Lesson From the Zoomex Space
Across sessions, the same logic kept returning in different forms. Preparation sets the floor. Instinct, built through repetition and deliberate exposure to pressure, sets the ceiling. Mistakes are not problems to avoid, they are the mechanism through which real capability gets built.
But the sharper thread running through the second half of the conversation was about what success does to a person once it arrives. It is insulating. It softens the feedback. It surrounds you with people who laugh louder and push back less. The mountain keeps moving, the targets keep resetting, and the version of yourself most likely to keep you honest is the one most at risk of being quietly replaced. Keeping people close who do not adjust themselves around your status is not a luxury. It is maintenance.
The lie that most damages a young person’s trajectory is rarely the dramatic one. It is the normalised one, the belief that certain habits are social necessities, that certain relationships are fixed costs, that certain decisions cannot be undone. They can. The internet rebuilt Nuseir once. It can rebuild anyone.
WallStreetBets put it simply. There are no problems. There are only features. That framing does not minimise difficulty. It removes the excuse to stop.
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