147: How to Find Your Life Purpose, Defeat Stress, and Achieve Mastery | Michael Gervais, PhD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Michael Gervais is a high performance psychologist working in the trenches of high-stakes environments with some of the best in the world, training the mindset skills and practices essential to pursuing and revealing one’s potential. His clients include world record holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed artists and musicians, MVPs from every major sport and Fortune 100 CEOs. He is the host of the Finding Mastery podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | What up family, welcome to episode 147 of The Genius Life. |
| 0:17.7 | What up everybody, how you doing? |
| 0:19.9 | I am so pumped to welcome you back to another episode of The Genius Life. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your host Max Lugiver, a filmmaker, health and science journalist and author of The New York Times, |
| 0:26.3 | best selling book, Genius Foods and The Genius Life. |
| 0:28.8 | Today's guest is Dr. Michael Jervet and boy does he bring it to today's episode. |
| 0:34.8 | Dr. Jervet is the co-founder of the online coaching and training platform, |
| 0:38.4 | Compete to Create and host of the popular Finding Mastery podcast. |
| 0:42.3 | A licensed psychologist and industry visionary, |
| 0:44.9 | Michael focuses most of his time on helping people at the top of their game, |
| 0:47.9 | from NFL and NBA players to Olympians, |
| 0:50.4 | military personnel and corporate leaders. |
| 0:52.6 | In this episode, Dr. Jervet shares how not being able to perform athletically under pressure, |
| 0:57.3 | let him down a path to investigate how the mind works. |
| 1:00.6 | We discuss the difference between traditional psychology and sport psychology. |
| 1:04.2 | Dr. Jervet discusses how we, you know, us non-professional athletes, |
| 1:07.4 | can use psychological techniques that allow the world's top performers to excel |
| 1:11.4 | in order to overcome our own hang-ups and anxieties. |
| 1:14.6 | He shares how to find the silver lining of the COVID-19 global pandemic, |
| 1:18.6 | we cover how to find your life's purpose, |
| 1:21.0 | and lastly, Michael shares why he considers the hustle mentality overrated |
| 1:25.1 | and what will serve us better. |
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