Georges St-Pierre, UFC Legend and Two Division Champion
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Georges "Rush" St-Pierre, also known as “GSP,” a Canadian professional mixed martial artist and UFC world champion who holds black belts in both Kyokushin karate and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Georges is recognized as one of the planet's best pound-for-pound MMA fighters and all around athlete.
He retired from the sport on December 13, 2013, holding the UFC record for most wins in title bouts.
Georges then returned to the octagon after a four-year layoff, on November 4, 2017 at UFC 217 in New York City, where he defeated Michael Bisping by submission in the third round to win the UFC Middleweight Championship title, becoming the fourth fighter in the history of the organization to be a multi-division champion.
On December 7, 2017, after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, Georges vacated his UFC middleweight title and officially announced his retirement from professional MMA competition on February 21, 2019.
I found this conversation fascinating and I think you’ll be surprised to learn that while Georges may arguably be the greatest MMA fighter of all time, he actually doesn’t really like to fight.
Wild.
Georges also shares why the key to his sustained success is also the same thing that drove him into retirement.
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| 0:00.0 | when you want to be champion or the best at something you need to be more than dedicated to this thing you need to be obsessed and I'm talking about being the best of the world at something you need to be obsessed by it you need to dream about it |
| 0:14.9 | to think about it to breed it to eat it every time you have a second you need to |
| 0:21.2 | think about it and that's how I always was during my career. All right, welcome back. |
| 0:36.6 | Or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I am Michael Jervay, |
| 0:41.2 | and by Trade and Trading a Sport and Performance Psychologist. |
| 0:45.8 | Now the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these conversations, is to learn from people |
| 0:50.4 | who are on the path of mastery. |
| 0:51.9 | We want to better understand what's driving them, |
| 0:55.2 | what are they searching for, |
| 0:56.3 | how do they organize their internal life, |
| 0:58.6 | how do they match the challenges of the external world |
| 1:01.5 | that they're purposely putting themselves in. |
| 1:03.2 | And then underneath of it, we want to dig to explore the mental skills that they're |
| 1:08.0 | using to refine their craft. |
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| 1:19.0 | Having spent decades working with and around some of the most driven people on the planet. |
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| 1:40.3 | and creatives that we've worked with on the path for them to be able to reach their potential. |
| 1:45.6 | The products that are on this list are all products that I use. |
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