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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

John Brenkus, Producer, Director, TV Personality

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

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with John Brenkus, who has spent the last decade studying and popularizing the unique characteristics of the world’s greatest athletes.

A co-founder of BASE Productions, he is best known as the on-air host, co-creator and executive producer of ESPN’s Emmy Award-winning show Sport Science, appearing in and producing over 1500 segments that have been featured on ABC and ESPN's enormous sports platform.

John has been featured in coverage of The Super Bowl, Monday Night Football, the NBA Finals, Sunday Night Baseball, and The Masters just to name a few.

Through Sport Science, John has appeared before 80 million people annually for the last decade, has won 6 Emmys, and has written a New York Times Best Seller "The Perfection Point."

When John has an idea he goes for it.

It makes sense then, that his philosophy is to: “Make something out of nothing.”

In this conversation we discuss what gives him the confidence to go for it and not let a fear of failure get in the way of pursuing his dreams.

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when I feel like one of my strengths is making something out of nothing.

0:03.8

So that oasis that I see down there is actually, it's actually there.

0:09.7

The tree is there. The water is there. I just need to keep running after it.

0:15.2

And when you feel like you're never gonna get there,

0:17.8

I'm like, I'm so stubborn and I'm so,

0:22.4

I believe in myself, I believe in my cause. I believe in, I'll get there.

0:30.0

I don't know how long it's going to take me. I don't know how many twists and turns, but I'm welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I am Michael Jervay,

0:51.0

and by trade and training, I'm a Sport and Performance Psychologist as well as the co-founder of

0:56.0

Compete to Create. And I'd love for you to go check out some of the work that we're doing over there.

1:00.8

It's been a blast. and the whole idea behind the

1:04.0

conversations in this podcast is to learn from people who are on the path of

1:07.3

mastery to better understand what they're searching for what they ache for what

1:12.4

they're craving we want to understand how they're searching for, what they're ache for, what they're craving.

1:13.8

We want to understand how they're making sense of their world,

1:17.0

events in the world, themselves and people.

1:19.8

And we also want to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft.

1:25.0

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