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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Author Karan Bajaj on Mindfulness, Marketing, Sabbaticals

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

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Karan Bajaj is a #1 bestselling Indian novelist with more than 200,000 copies of his novels in print, both optioned into major films. Karan has also worked in senior executive roles at companies like Procter & Gamble and the Boston Consulting Group and was named among Ad Age's "Top 40 Under 40 executives" in the US.

This Episode:

-Growing up in foothills of the Himalayas

-Value of an individual vs. community in different cultures

-The meaning of “Dharma”

-The 4-1-4 model

-Purpose behind taking a year long sabbatical

-The misconception of space in the Western World

-Why his employers have been ok with him taking a year long sabbatical

-How to determine when the right time is for taking this journey

-The tangible return of a sabbatical

-Why he doesn’t feel a burden to be perfect

-The difference between becoming better and revealing yourself

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast on Michael Jervé.

0:13.7

And the idea behind these conversations is to learn, is to learn from people who are

0:17.5

on the path of mastery, to understand what they're searching for, to understand their

0:21.6

strategies, the practices, the ways that they understand the world, their unique psychological

0:27.8

framework, if you will, so that we can better understand maybe ways that we can incorporate

0:32.7

some of those insights and practices in our own lives, and we certainly want to pay attention

0:37.6

to the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft.

0:41.5

Now this conversation will be different, and the format is the same, but what's different

0:46.6

is that this conversation is with a gentleman who is clearly right center at the home of

0:53.0

the way I like to see the world, he's off access, meaning that he does it just a little

0:58.3

bit differently, and it does it his way, and he's found a path towards authenticity and

1:04.5

insight.

1:05.7

And so this conversation might strike you, and it challenged me at the center, and I hope

1:11.1

it does you as well, and it definitely got some juices rolling for creativity and just

1:16.6

really to look within to better understand and to be honest to the truth of the way that

1:24.3

we're generating our life efforts, and what we're doing on a day-to-day basis, and I have

1:28.9

so much more room to grow, and I have so much room to do better, to be a better man, to

1:34.2

be a better performer at what I do, that this conversation was a gem.

1:38.8

You might not have known his name, and that's all about what this conversation, or these

1:43.6

conversations on the Finding Mastery podcast are about, it is easy to pay attention to

1:48.3

the Leonardo da Vinci's because they're phenomenal, and the world knows their name, and also

1:53.9

learning from those that are on the path that have similar insights, just maybe not as

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