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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Author Ryan Holiday on Ego, Obstacles, Writing

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 September 2016

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Holiday is a media strategist and prominent writer on strategy and business. After dropping out of college at nineteen to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, he went on to advise many bestselling authors and multiplatinum musicians. In This Episode: -The concept of parent-child fit and why it was missing for him -Finding the people who understood him in college -Learning under Robert Greene -His method for ideating and organizing thoughts Why his work can be exhilarating and exhausting -The on-going journey to find inner peace The destructiveness of one's “ego” -How his experience at American Apparel create an intersection of his intellectual work and personal life -His love for stoicism

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.5

I'm Michael Jervay.

0:13.7

And the idea behind these conversations

0:15.6

is to sit down with people who are on it,

0:18.4

who are just flat out on it.

0:19.6

They're on the path of mastery.

0:21.4

They have a deep understanding about how their craft works, but more importantly,

0:25.6

we don't talk about the craft very much. More importantly, we're working to understand

0:30.1

their unique psychological framework, how they understand how the world works, how they understand how the world works, how they understand how they're. their if we can use their insights and

0:42.5

wisdoms to reveal deeper our insights and wisdom.

0:46.1

So insight and wisdom is revealed.

0:48.0

It's not gathered from outside of us.

0:50.4

We have to work from within to be able to reveal insight and

0:53.5

wisdom. So this conversation for me at least is like this calibration tool and

0:57.4

it's to hear and challenging ideas and also to hear ideas that have alignment based on the things that I've worked to understand as well.

1:06.0

Finding Mastery is brought to you by natural stacks.

1:09.0

Your brain is one of the hungriest organs in your body.

1:12.0

It's been found to consume roughly around 20 times. one of the hungriest organs in your body.

1:12.6

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

1:17.2

That means an important factor between the days you feel sluggish

1:20.3

and the days that you feel sharp

1:22.1

is how fuel efficient your brain is.

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