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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Judson Brewer on Habits, Mindfulness, Addiction

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

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Brewer is the Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness and associate professor in Medicine and Psychiatry at UMass Medical School. He is also adjunct faculty at Yale University, and a research affiliate at MIT. He's at ground-zero when it comes to using science to explain how mindfulness is working -- For me, this was a fantastic conversation about his journey toward mastery -- and his very applied insights on applying good science to upgrade or enhance the habits that get you closer to the man or woman that you're working on becoming.

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0:00.0

awareness is the basis for both learning good habits or quote unquote good habits but also

0:07.1

letting go of habits that don't help us and a lot of habits a lot of these habits are self-related in terms of like self-doubt or fear or worry,

0:18.0

whether it's, you know, performance in the executive room or performance on the field. All right.

0:33.3

Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast.

0:36.0

I'm Michael Jervay.

0:37.3

And the idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery.

0:41.7

To better understand what they're searching for, we want to celebrate their unique journey,

0:45.2

we want to celebrate the events and the people that have helped shape their life,

0:49.4

and we want to understand the way that they think, how they process world events and how they process

0:55.0

events in their local experiences.

0:58.4

That being said, we also want to dig deeper to understand the mental skills that they've used

1:01.9

to build and refine their craft so that we can do the same in our own life efforts.

1:07.0

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1:14.4

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1:19.6

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1:39.6

unmotivated, those may be signs of suboptimal or low levels of dopamine, among many other

1:46.1

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1:51.4

enhanced mood and motivation, focus, attention, mental clarity, learning.

1:56.0

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