Dr. Harry Edwards on Human Rights, Sport and Society

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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🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This conversation is loaded. The center of the conversation is Dr. Harry Edwards journey to impact human rights through the experiences of the African American athlete.

Often times when people are asked, what they want most in life, the response,, without hesitation, is "to be happy -- or to have peace." I know for sure that I don't want, just happiness. I don't want just one of the core emotions. I want to be connected to them all, not muted from the ones that are uncomfortable.

In this conversation Dr. Edwards did just that -- he felt and shared sadness, frustration, fear -- he taught me more about how he lives his life in this fashion, than he did with his words -- and his words are precise and thoughtful.

After completing his Bachelor's degree, he was "on the draft board" for an NFL team and rather chose to go to Cornell University where he completed a M.A. and a Ph. D. in sociology. He later became a professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley from 1970-2000.

He is a human rights activist. He was an influential member of the Black Panthers. He was the catalyst for the famous fist raise at the 1968 Olympic Games medal ceremony for the 200-meter track event.

He was followed by the FBI as he fought for what he believed in.

He's been consulting with the San Francisco 49ers since the mid 1980's

We talk about what he sees as the most pressing issues for sport & society going forward.

This includes the increasing majority of African Americans in the NFL, the impact women’s health care has on the future of college sports and beyond, the issue of marijuana legalization and its relationship to athletes, and why you can either choose to make Colin Kaepernick a martyr or a model.

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0:00.0	What can people do who want to make a difference, who simply want to live and make their contribution?
0:10.0	The first thing that I would tell them is what Bill Russell told that crowd.
0:16.0	Do not be afraid.
0:18.0	Personally, politically, socially, culturally, don't be afraid to walk up to that person who's wearing the
0:27.6	hijab and say, you know, I don't know a lot of Muslims, but you look like a person that I would love to know. Tell me about yourself. This is who I am. Don't be afraid. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervay.
0:53.0	And the idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of
0:56.8	mastery.
0:57.8	To better understand what they're searching for and to dig underneath to understand their
1:01.3	psychological framework,
1:02.9	which is how they see the world works,
1:04.5	how they understand how they work, and people work,
1:06.6	how they explain events,
1:08.6	how they see and understand their craft.
1:10.9	And then we also want to dig to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft.
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