536: The One Mental Shift to Make Pressure, Criticism, and Stress Easier in 2026 | Michael Gervais, PhD

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Michael Gervais—a performance psychologist to the world’s best—explains how to train your mind like an elite athlete, overcoming imposter syndrome, burnout, and fear of other people’s opinions to perform, recover, and live better in a high-stress world.

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0:00.0	What up everybody? It's episode 536 of the Genius Life. Let's go.
0:08.8	What is the genius of Billman What's going on everybody?
0:11.5	Max, Loucapeer.
0:12.6	Max, Lou Geinue.
0:15.6	What is the genius life?
0:17.9	The genius life.
0:23.5	What's going on, everybody? The Genius Life.
0:24.5	What's going on, everybody?
0:34.0	I'm your host, Max Lugavir, and welcome back to The Genius Life, a show where we try to get a little smarter, a little stronger, and a little less at the mercy of our own brains, especially this time of year.
0:34.5	Am I right?
0:38.0	Today I'm joined by Dr. Michael Jervais, one of the world's top performance psychologists and the host of the phenomenal podcast Finding Mastery. In this
0:43.3	conversation, we get into the invisible skills that separate people who perform from people who
0:48.6	flourish, why training your mind should be as normal as training your body, how to work with
0:53.2	imposter syndrome instead of
0:54.5	letting it run your life, and how to stop living under FOPO, the fear of other people's opinions.
1:00.0	We also talk about the messy edge, preventing burnout with a simple stress plus recovery framework,
1:05.9	and a few practical tools you can use starting tomorrow morning. No incense, no mountain top, no 45-minute
1:12.3	meditation marathon required. Now before we dive in, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah,
1:18.0	both neither, or you're just enjoying the weird in-between week where time stops meaning anything,
1:23.5	well, I'm sending you and yours a ton of love. I hope you get some rest, some real connection,
1:27.4	and at least one moment that makes you laugh out loud. Quick favor, before we start, if you enjoy this episode, please leave a rating and review on your podcast app of choice. Subscribe wherever you listen and subscribe on YouTube too. It really does help. And separately, if you want my free weekly newsletter of the most useful health and performance research that I'm finding, plus practical takeaways and occasional product discounts, check out my free newsletter at max lugavir.com slash newsletter.
1:50.1	No spam, just the good stuff.
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