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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Jimmy Smith: Creativity, Authenticity, Growth (Part 1)

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Mindset, Finding Mastery, Business, Sport Psychology, Education, Health & Fitness, Michael Gervais, Psychology, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-improvement, Self Help

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Smith, Founder and CEO of Amusement Park Entertainment, is a creator, who has faced down adversity and celebrates both the humanness and spirituality of people. He has earned countless awards for his work as a Writer and Creative Director for Nike at Wieden + Kennedy, Executive Creative Director at BBDO and most recently, Gatorade’s Group Creative Director at TBWA\Chiat\Day LA. In This Episode: -Enduring racism as a child and how it shaped him -Why he doesn’t have hatred in him -Refusing to take no for an answer -Where he developed confidence from -Racism in the ad agency world -How he filters through what a great idea is -Figuring out what he was good at -His 1st ad campaign -The importance of having African-American role models to look up to -Working through his relationship with God -Stresswood as a defining moment in his life

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast.

0:12.6

I'm Michael Jervay.

0:13.6

And the idea behind these conversations

0:15.8

is to sit down with people who are on the path of mastery,

0:18.4

to better understand what they're searching for,

0:20.6

to understand their unique psychological framework,

0:24.0

and how they understand how they've become.

0:28.0

And in particular, we want to understand

0:30.0

the unique mental skills that they're working to develop,

0:33.2

why they've chosen those skills,

0:35.2

and how they're working to build and refine their craft

0:38.5

by using those mental skills.

0:40.5

Okay, we're interested in those robust, those sturdy practices that they use.

0:44.4

Not kind of, we're not interested in hacks and tricks and tips.

0:47.4

We're not interested in that.

0:49.0

We're interested in like how they think and how they develop. And with that in mind like these conversations

0:55.8

they're just rich they're long form they're really nuanced they're full of

1:01.7

context with twists and turns to try to get to the center of the psychological framework.

1:06.0

And if you're like me, and you enjoy taking a second pass at these conversations,

1:11.0

just because they're applied, they're thought-provoking,

1:14.4

and they're inspiring ways about thinking maybe differently. And so because of that

1:20.3

and because of the calling that you've asked for, we fired up a second podcast called

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