Former Pixar CFO Lawrence Levy on Decision Making & Relationships

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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🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Lawrence Levy is the author of To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History. It was named Amazon’s Best Business and Leadership Book of 2016 Formerly a Silicon Valley lawyer and executive, Lawrence was hired by Steve Jobs in 1994 as CFO and member of the Office of the President of Pixar. He was responsible for guiding Pixar's transformation from a money-losing graphics company into a multibillion-dollar entertainment studio. He later joined Pixar's board of directors. He then left corporate life to study Eastern philosophy and meditation and their relevance to modern life. He now writes and teaches on this topic and cofounded Juniper Foundation to pursue this work. I wanted to learn from Lawrence - how he thinks about taking on challenges -- how he organizes his thoughts around risk taking -- and how he was able to have extreme success on multiple counts (school, business, family, and the journey within, as well). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	whatever it is that we're doing it could be writing a 75 page legal contract it could be you know
0:07.6	You know driving our children to school they could be you know serving coffee at a coffee shop it doesn't matter what it is it's about
0:16.0	the quality that we bring to it and so when we are in that we're in our
0:20.8	element when we don't feel that angst and that clutter.
0:24.0	For me, that's mastery. Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay and the idea
0:40.6	behind these conversations is to learn from people who have dedicated their life efforts to understand and express the nuances of their craft.
0:49.0	And what we want to do is understand their psychological framework.
0:52.0	How do they understand the world,
0:53.6	how do they understand how people work,
0:55.1	how do they understand how their unique craft works.
0:59.2	And then we want to dig even deeper
1:00.8	to understand the mental skills that they've used to be able to build and
1:04.2	refine their craft and how they've applied those insights into other crafts.
1:09.0	And that's exactly what this conversation is about, moving from one craft to another and the risk-taking process
1:16.1	embedded in that.
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