Dr. Michael Gervais: Master Your Mindset to Dominate in Business and Life | Human Behavior | YAPClassic
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
YAP Media Network | Hala Taha
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, young and profitors. Most people never reach their full potential, not because they |
| 0:16.2 | lack talent, but because they're trapped by the fear of other people's opinions. |
| 0:22.2 | This silent mindset known as FOPO keeps us playing small, seeking approval, and living life on everybody |
| 0:27.5 | else's terms instead of our own. In this Yap classic episode, I sat down with Michael Gervais, |
| 0:32.9 | one of the world's top performance psychologist. He has coached Olympians, Fortune 100 CEOs, and elite |
| 0:39.1 | performers under extreme pressure, and he knows exactly what holds people back at the highest |
| 0:44.2 | levels. Michael breaks down why we're biologically wired to crave approval, how that instinct |
| 0:50.6 | pulls us away from who we really are and how shifting from external validation |
| 0:54.7 | to internal purpose changes everything. I absolutely cannot wait for you guys. Here's this one. |
| 1:00.5 | Here's my conversation with Dr. Michael Jervais. So I was learning a bit about your story |
| 1:08.7 | and I found out that you first got interested in the power of the mind when you were a teenage surfer. |
| 1:14.3 | So can you tell us about those early days surfing and what you learned about high performance and the mind during those experiences? |
| 1:22.6 | So there's two types of surfing. There's competitive surfing and then what's called hardcore or core |
| 1:28.8 | surfing. And core surfing is exactly what it sounds like. You put yourself in a consequential condition |
| 1:34.6 | and you don't talk about it. You do it for the purity of the experience. And so it's not cool to |
| 1:41.5 | brag, to boast, to ask questions, did you see what I did? |
| 1:45.8 | You just do it for the joy of it, for the knowing that you have what it takes to be in that |
| 1:51.2 | consequential environment. |
| 1:52.6 | And then there's a completely different culture, which is competitive surfing. |
| 1:56.1 | And in that culture, you've got people on the beach that are watching and judging and judging, and there's |
| 2:01.0 | friends and family and experts that are giving you a score on your wave. I could do the thing in |
| 2:07.4 | course surfing. I was able to do it when I had my little cocoon, and it was just me in the wave, |
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