Ask Me Anything: Dr. Michael Gervais on Self-Worth, Resilience, and Finding Light in the Cracks
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What does it take to thrive in today’s high-pressure, constantly shifting world?
We’re back with a special Finding Mastery Ask Me Anything with Dr. Michael Gervais! In this AMA, we're thrilled to welcome our good friend, Yogi Roth, for a powerful conversation on navigating life's most challenging moments. Drawing from our extensive experience with elite performers, educators, and healthcare professionals, we dig deep into questions that resonate with all of us trying to thrive in today's complex world.
Through thoughtful questions from our community, we explore the delicate balance between performance and self-worth, recovery strategies for busy professionals, and how to maintain purpose when facing uncertainty.
We dig into some fascinating topics, including:
- The "tail wagging the dog" trap - Never let your performance dictate your self-worth
- Recovery isn't optional - Elite performers prioritize recovery with training
- Mastering the spaces between moments - Find presence in small pauses throughout your day
- Why every world-class performer shares fundamental optimism - And how you can develop it
- When to double down on purpose - Using your values as an anchor during times of uncertainty
- The power of micro choices - Making thousands of small right decisions each day creates transformation
Join us for this illuminating conversation that reminds us how our daily choices shape not just our performance, but who we become. We hope these insights can offer practical wisdom that applies whether you're leading a team, supporting others, or simply trying to find your footing in challenging circumstances.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have any tips to change mindset and maximize the little free time I get to recharge? |
| 0:06.1 | Isn't this the question of all questions? |
| 0:08.2 | What questions are tugging at you right now? |
| 0:11.0 | And how might exploring the answers to those questions help you unlock your potential? |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome back or welcome to a special episode of the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:22.4 | Dr. Michael Jerva, by trade and training a high-performance psychologist. And this week, we're turning |
| 0:28.1 | the microphone around instead of diving into mastery through the minds of our remark. Guess we're going |
| 0:33.9 | straight to you for another Ask Me Anything episode. What can we do as a healthcare worker? |
| 0:39.7 | What frameworks or practices would you recommend? |
| 0:42.5 | How do you maintain a sense of self-worth? |
| 0:45.9 | You've submitted deep and thoughtful, vulnerable questions about life, performance, relationships, |
| 0:52.4 | and navigating the complexities of the human experience. |
| 0:56.4 | And in this episode, with the help of author, documentarian, podcaster, football analyst, |
| 1:01.7 | and all around Renaissance man and friend of finding mastery, Yogi Roth, all offer insights |
| 1:07.7 | and perspectives designed to help us think a little differently. What framing |
| 1:12.2 | would you use to help instill a healthy sense of motivation? Nobody does it alone, so we need each |
| 1:18.2 | other. Let's be great. We don't talk about working harder. We talk about recovering more |
| 1:22.4 | intelligent. And what I'm hearing you say is remind them of the things that we've been talking about |
| 1:27.3 | and training upon. |
| 1:28.3 | Make sure you're infusing it with what could be great if we do the work together. |
| 1:32.3 | It's a good point. |
| 1:33.3 | It's crazy. |
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