Author Robert Rabbin on Fighting Cancer, Curiosity, Authenticity

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

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

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🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In January 2012, Robert Rabbin was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and told he had a few months to live. However, in keeping with his contrarian nature, he took a non-conventional path.

Robert began his professional journey in 1985, after spending 10 years living and working with meditation master Swami Muktananda in India.

Long before then he was on a pursuit – a pursuit to understand the “why”.

The questioning and the wondering, has been the signature characteristic of his life.

Who am I? What is my purpose? What is real?

At 11 years of age Robert asked himself those 3 questions and has been on a relentless journey to answer them ever since.

The spirit of inquiry, wondering, and curiosity has allowed him to go deeper and further than most people – deeper than those that accept a preexisting condition of knowledge.

In this conversation we take a deep dive into mindfulness and the meaning of a “thought stream.”

We discuss why words and language can be insufficient when it comes to truly understanding what is transpiring as an experience of being "here now."

Robert shares how listening deeply without projection, allowing space to be playful, and removing ego are all at the center of what has made him successful.

Robert has developed an international reputation as a brilliant speaker and public speaking guru, as well as a distinguished self-awareness facilitator and leadership advisor.

He's an author: Two of his books that I've appreciated are: The 5 Principles of Authentic Living, and Speak Truthfully.

I hope this conversation drives you to think just a bit deeper and get curious about who you really are.

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0:00.0	The why the questioning, the wondering, has been maybe the signature characteristic of my life. I'm Michael Jervay.
0:25.0	And the idea behind these conversations is to learn.
0:29.0	Like really that's the first starting point is to learn to increase our awareness of different ways of
0:34.4	understanding the human experience of understanding how people pursue their very
0:38.7	best and how they've been through tough times and how they accelerate through those periods so that they can
0:46.0	explore the deeper meanings in life, but at the same time explore high performance.
0:49.3	And we want to understand at the same time, they've cultivated particular mindset skills to deal with challenges and strategies and to be able to pivot and adjust in difficult scenarios.
1:01.5	And that's really what the mental skills are about,
1:04.5	is it's easy to be calm and confident and focused
1:07.6	and optimistic in calm settings
1:11.1	or easily focused settings. It's a totally different ball game when we're
1:16.0	about to be punched in the mouth or kicked in the stomach or we feel like you know
1:20.7	there's something that's looming around the corner or we've gotten really bad information.
1:25.2	That's a totally different inner experience to be able to eloquently be you or for me to be me in those scenarios, let alone be able to pursue and perform at a high level.
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