Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay. And the idea behind these conversations is to learn.

It is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery to understand what they're searching for,

to understand their psychological framework, how they see the world,

and the skills, the psychological skills that support that, as well as the mental skills that they

use to build and refine their craft. And the ultimate goal is to not do exactly what they do,

but rather to learn and calibrate our own framework

and our own way to train the mental skills that they have used on their path.

And it sounds kind of esoteric as an intro, but if you follow along, I think that there's some

very clear and practical and sturdy ways to understand how they've trained their mind.

Because as humans there really is only a couple of things we can train.

We can train our body, we can train our craft, and we can train our mind.

And so this conversation is really about how to train the mind.

And the craft, I think most of our crafts, if you will, is it's like this kind of temporary or made up context for us to have

relationships.

And it's the relationships with ourselves and relationships with nature and other people.

And so I think I read a stat that somewhere near 80% or plus jobs, if there was a catastrophe, a global catastrophe,

80% or plus of those jobs would not be necessary.

And certainly a high-performance psychologist would not be a necessary job.

So it's like this made-up world and universe that we get to explore potential and we get to explore ourselves in that pursuit.

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