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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Author Robert Greene on Mastery & Research

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

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Robert Greene is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, and his fifth book, Mastery, which takes a deep dive into the lives of historical figures such as Charles Darwin, Mozart, Paul Graham and Henry Ford. This conversation was on the recommendation from Ryan Holiday (if you haven't had the chance to listen to my conversation with him, it is episode 043). The reason I wanted to sit down with Robert is obvious -- but equally as important as his insights, I wanted to understand what led him to be interested in mastery and power. He has a wonderful way of being committed to principles, and at the same time, being cognitively nimble and agile – a fantastic combination to explore ideas, and at the same time being grounded. We talked about everything from Machiavelli to how people have misused his principles on power – to the importance of having a life task.

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0:00.0

What happens a lot in life is you start listening to your peers and you lose a sense of who you are and what you were meant to do in life.

0:10.7

You've got too many voices in your head and you're not hearing yourself.

0:13.8

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast.

0:25.0

I'm Michael Jervay.

0:27.0

And the idea behind these conversations is to learn,

0:30.0

is to learn from people who have dedicated their life efforts to push on the boundaries,

0:34.6

to push towards the edges.

0:37.2

They have a curiosity that has driven them to refine and build their craft so that they can articulate the difficult and challenging.

0:46.1

And what we want to understand is not necessarily what they've come to understand, that's important,

0:52.4

but what it is that they're searching for, how they explain or make

0:56.1

sense of the world, their worldview, if you will. And we also want to dig underneath the surface

1:00.5

and find what are the mental skills that they've used to build and

1:04.8

refine their own craft.

1:06.7

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1:10.0

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1:13.2

It's been found to consume roughly around 20% of your energy every day.

1:17.7

That means an important factor between the days you feel sluggish and the days that you feel sharp is how fuel efficient your brain is.

1:25.8

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1:29.2

They've got a product, they're dopamine brain food supplement that's designed to support the body's natural production of

1:36.2

dopamine. If you've ever had days where you felt tired or stressed or unmotivated, those may be signs of

1:42.1

suboptimal or low levels of dopamine, among many other

1:46.2

potential factors of course. When dopamine is optimized, it's been linked to

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