Dr. Michael Gervais on Not Caring What People Think and the Future of Stoicism (Pt 1)
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan is joined by Dr. Michael Gervais, one of the world’s top high-performance psychologists and leading experts on the relationship between the mind and human performance.
Together they discuss FOPO (fear of other people's opinions), the reality of imposter syndrome, and Dr. Gervais' book, The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying What Other People Think of You.
Dr. Michael Gervais has spent his career being called on by the best of the best across the worlds of business, sport, the arts, and science when they need to achieve the extraordinary. Dr. Gervais’s client roster includes Super Bowl winning NFL teams, Fortune 50 CEOs, Olympic medalists, internationally acclaimed artists, and more. He is also the founder of Finding Mastery and the founder/host of the Finding Mastery Podcast, and the co-creator of the Performance Science Institute at USC. His work has been featured by NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, ESPN, NFL Network, Red Bull TV, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Outside Magazine, WIRED, and ESPN Magazine.
You can buy signed copies of his brand-new book, The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying What Other People Think of You, at The Painted Porch
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient stilics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed |
| 0:17.2 | to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of |
| 0:25.4 | ancient philosophy well-known and obscure fascinating and powerful with them we |
| 0:31.2 | discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are, |
| 0:35.8 | and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 0:40.1 | But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | So the story of my books and professional sports |
| 1:05.8 | is that the Patriots read the obstacles away in like 2014. |
| 1:10.6 | That was that famous game. The yard line the interception against the the |
| 1:17.2 | Seahawks the Patriots ended up winning the Super Bowl the Seahawks heartbreaking |
| 1:21.6 | lose the Super Bowl, |
| 1:23.0 | Bowl, and I remember I watched that game |
| 1:26.2 | getting off of a plane and watching it standing in airport. |
| 1:30.7 | Because it wasn't, the plane I was on didn't have much streaming back then and so |
| 1:36.0 | anyways I remember watching that game thinking this is unreal how could my book spoke |
| 1:40.2 | about ancient philosophy be in any way connected to that game and then you know book about |
| 1:42.8 | ancient philosophy be in any way connected to that game. And then, you know, several months later, |
| 1:46.1 | I get this sort of ping, and then there's an email |
| 1:49.2 | and it's a link to a Sports Illustrated article |
| 1:52.2 | about how now the Seahawks were reading that book. |
| 1:56.0 | And so I reached out to the person that I knew at the Patriots, said, how could they have possibly |
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