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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Alyssa Roenigk: Writing About and Living Adventure

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Mindset, Finding Mastery, Business, Sport Psychology, Education, Health & Fitness, Michael Gervais, Psychology, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-improvement, Self Help

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2016

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Alyssa lives fully – thinks deeply – and captures the point of view and insights from people who have chosen adventure as a way of living. She’s trusted by elite action and adventure sport athletes

In This Episode: - What defines action sports athletes - Growing up wanting to be Terry Bradshaw - Moving from form to formless - Pitching the “Madden Curse” - How she finds threads to write about - How do people do things that don’t seem possible - The challenges of writing - How she works through the creative process - Dealing with doubt in writing - Practicing the things you aren’t good at / working on your weaknesses - Cost of greatness - Why movement defines her - Writing controversial stories

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay.

0:13.4

And the idea behind these conversations

0:15.6

is to sit down with people who are on the path of mastery

0:18.4

or have a point of view about mastery.

0:20.8

And we're working to understand their sturdy and robust practices what allow them to pursue

0:26.1

mastery and or pursue progression in environments that many of us might deem to be hostile

0:32.4

or rugged.

0:33.4

And the idea is for us to be able to tease out

0:36.0

the ways that they train their mind

0:37.4

and the way that they understand the world

0:39.4

and themselves in it, so that we can apply

0:41.4

some of those same principles in our everyday living as well.

0:45.4

And all of us reach moments where it feels rugged, even though it, you know, from an outsider

0:51.4

or an observer, it might not be, but be but it you know inside it feels like there's lots of pressure

0:56.2

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