It All Comes Down to Grit | Journalist, Shea Serrano
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Shea Serrano, an author and journalist.
His books include The Rap Year Book, Basketball (and Other Things), and Movies (and Other Things), all three of which were New York Times best-sellers
Two of them were number one on the list and one was picked by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year.
Shea is also known for his work with the sports and pop culture websites, The Ringer and Grantland.
This conversation is as real as it gets.
Shea used to be a teacher and he loved it -- but he couldn’t afford to take care of his family.
He had to figure out what else he could do and that led him to writing.
Shea’s story is about perseverance.
It’s about outworking the competition so he could provide for those closest to him.
It’s about pushing fear aside and going for it.
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| 0:00.0 | growing up where I grew up or how I grew up like you watch your family do the hard stuff anyway. |
| 0:07.0 | I mentioned my mom, she worked at that corner store for 29 years. |
| 0:10.0 | She's getting up every day. Her shift begins at like four in the morning or whatever. So she's she's going and doing doing that. My dad has been driving a city bus at this point for 33 years. Same thing. He's up every morning, 3 o'clock to be down there by by |
| 0:23.7 | 3.45 to do whatever like you I'm watching my people do that my uncles do that my |
| 0:28.6 | aunts do that and it's like oh like I don't I don't have to get up and go dig a fucking trench. |
| 0:34.0 | You're telling me I just got to send 45 emails today? |
| 0:36.8 | Like I can do that, welcome back. |
| 0:49.0 | Or welcome back. |
| 0:50.0 | Or welcome to The Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Michael Jervay, and by trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, |
| 0:58.6 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 1:01.6 | The whole idea, behind these conversations, behind this podcast, is to learn from people who |
| 1:07.4 | have committed their life efforts towards mastery. We want to better understand. How do they |
| 1:11.4 | organize their inner life? |
| 1:13.2 | How did they use their mind to build and refine their craft? |
| 1:16.8 | And how did they use their mind |
| 1:18.2 | to build and refine their understanding |
| 1:20.8 | of what's possible for them. |
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