Jon Gordon: Storytelling
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2015
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering if you’ve made the mistake of trading your deepest talents — for the security of a good-paying-gig — I think you’ll appreciate the shift that Jon Gordon made mid-stride on his career path. Gordon's best-selling books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world. His principles have been put to the test by numerous NFL, NBA, MLB coaches and teams, Fortune 500 companies, school districts, hospitals and non-profits.
Show Notes: 8:02: Where he got his writing ability "Looking back, I realized you had to lose a goal to find your destiny" 12:10 20:12: How faith drives him 32:15: How he dealt with the loss of his mother 39:25: Process of changing his career from a restaurant owner to an author "I believe when you're open and you're willing and you're just willing for the possible, the possible comes" 43:19 50:30: His thoughts on Ernest Hemingway's quote "Write drunk, edit sober" 55:26: Detailing the process of getting his manuscript into publication 1:02:08: Most difficult time in his life 1:13:58: Phrase that defines what he understands most in life "I care about being my best" 1:15:10 1:24:00: How to get it back when you're off 1:28:06: Importance of the mental aspect of his craft 1:36:45: Defining mastery
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I am Michael Jervay. |
| 0:14.0 | And again, the idea behind these podcasts |
| 0:15.9 | are to have conversations with people who are switched on, |
| 0:18.4 | and they're just deeply connected |
| 0:20.1 | to what they might not even consider, but we've come to recognize as the path of mastery. |
| 0:26.9 | And the goal of the conversation is to work to identify their psychological framework, which is how |
| 0:31.1 | they see themselves and how they see or have come to |
| 0:34.0 | understand how the world works, but also understand their robust and sturdy |
| 0:38.6 | practices that have allowed them to come to understand their potential or to explore their |
| 0:43.9 | potential or even struggle with their potential and so that's the craft |
| 0:48.3 | development side. The first part is the psychology, the second part is the |
| 0:51.9 | craft development which in the craft development, there's three parts. |
| 0:56.5 | We can train our mind, we can train our craft, and we can train our body. |
| 1:01.3 | And so working to understand the sturdy and robust practices, we're not looking for tricks and tips and many hacks, if you will, of how to get better. |
| 1:10.0 | We're looking for the long play, the long game. |
| 1:13.1 | And in essence, the hope is that we'll provide |
| 1:17.5 | through these conversations ways |
| 1:18.8 | that we can all train our mind and our craft |
| 1:20.5 | in a similar fashion to some of the world's |
| 1:22.2 | exceptional performers. |
| 1:24.0 | And again, as a footnote that with a large asterisk next to it, |
| 1:28.3 | the ultimate goal is to not follow the path of these men and women |
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