How to Manage Your Thoughts, Stay Present & Let Go of People Pleasing | AMA Vol. 13 with Dr. Michael Gervais

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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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the 13th installment of our Ask Me Anything series, where your questions take center stage and our answers offer you guidance on the road to mastery.

The goal behind our monthly AMA series is to dive deep into the questions that challenge and inspire you on your path to becoming your best.

We’re stoked about all the excellent questions we received for this 13th AMA. Our co-host, O’Neil Cespedes, is back again to make sure we keep it real as we navigate the rich landscape of your questions.

In this episode, we dive deep into:

Best practices for managing unproductive thought
Why it’s important to square up with pain and suffering
The connection between quality sleep and being your best
How to push away recurring negative thoughts
How to develop your “It Factor” (no, it’s not genetic!)
How disordered thinking takes shape from microtraumas
Why people-pleasing masks your fear of other people’s opinions, or FOPO*
And so much more…

Enjoy! With fire,

* The book, The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying About What People Think of You, offers more detailed insight.

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0:00.0	No, that is not a genetic predisposition to have the it factor.
0:05.0	You develop it. You develop it by all the psychological skills and all the practices that you do
0:10.0	to know how to be fully present independent of the conditions,
0:13.9	independent of the environment.
0:15.5	And when you can do that, you have freedom.
0:18.4	You are no longer whipped around by the external world.
0:21.1	You know how to stand in your body and be fully present with any moment.
0:25.4	You know how to meet the demands of a moment because you have the psychological skills to pivot
0:30.5	and adjust. and adjust. Welcome back or welcome to.
0:40.0	Another ask me anything on Finding Mastery.
0:45.0	I'm your host, Dr. Michael Jervay, by trade and training a high performance psychologist.
0:50.0	Now the purpose behind these conversations, behind these AMAs, is to hear from you to explore the topics and questions that you've been wrestling with on your path to becoming.
1:01.0	Now the goal is to expand on the themes and the lessons and the
1:04.8	best practices that we've discussed on the Finding Master podcast in order to make
1:09.4	them even more applicable to your own life.
1:12.6	We want to wrestle them down to make them real for you.
1:16.0	So we're back with the one and the only O'Neil Cesspetus,
1:19.4	and today we've got a fun one for you.
1:22.2	We dive into gift giving and thoughts around the
1:24.8	holiday season, why people pleasing may be harming your well-being, the role and
1:30.4	importance of great coaches, how sleep is intricately linked to performance,
1:35.2	how to untangle your identity from external validation, and so much more.
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