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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Colin O'Brady: Explorers Grand Slam

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

🗓️ 20 July 2016

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

On May 27th, 2016, Colin broke two mountaineering world records; he claimed the speed records for both the Seven Summits (132 days) and the Explorers Grand Slam (139 days), climbing the tallest mountain on each continent and skiing the last degree of latitude to the North and South Poles. In This Episode: -Embracing growing up in a mixed family -Putting in just enough effort to get by in his early life -The transition from doing something for fun to doing it as a profession -Adapting to a new environment at Yale -Traveling the world after college -The moment that changed his life – a severe burn in Thailand -Fulfilling his goal of competing in a triathlon -The meaning of Beyond72 -The intensity of the journey to the South Pole -Summiting Everest under harsh conditions -Consistency as a key to breaking the record -Why mental fortitude is so important -Being flexible when chaos ensued

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay. And the idea behind these conversations

0:15.3

is just to sit down on people who are on the path of mastery to better understand their

0:19.7

psychological framework, which is a fancy phrase for how they understand how the world works, how they understand how they fit in it.

0:26.3

We also want to understand what's driving them, what are their motivations, what are they searching for, and how they line up those motivations to be able to pursue the edge of their potential.

0:36.0

And then the third component is to also understand their unique mental skills that they are refining and building along the journey

0:43.7

so that we can apply these in our own life to pursue our own potential,

0:47.3

whatever that might mean for us.

0:49.0

Okay.

0:50.0

So as a quick little note here, I want to share a project that we're launching and it's called the Mindset Project.

0:57.0

And I think this is going to be a blast.

0:59.0

Okay, so Nicole Davis and Ariana Kucors, both Olympians, who we've had conversation with on Finding Mastery,

1:06.4

and our very own Trevor Baru.

1:09.0

They're on a mission to be able to learn from the best as well.

1:13.0

And they're going to do this in Rio.

1:15.0

They're going down with one mission in mind

1:18.0

to explore and to decode the mindset of Olympians

1:22.0

who are competing in Rio right now.

1:23.6

That's so cool.

1:24.6

This is going to be unbelievable, I think at least.

1:27.6

And so Ariana and Nicole, they're Olympians, as we know,

1:31.5

and they're not currently competing, so it gives them this opportunity to head down

1:36.3

for a few weeks to interview some of their former teammates, their former competitors, and

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