Leading with Your Heart | Big Wave Surfer, Garrett McNamara

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

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

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🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Garrett McNamara, an international big wave explorer known for discovering, pioneering and surfing the biggest wave in the world - The Everest of the Oceans - Nazaré, Portugal.

Garrett also lead the iconic two-man team who rode tsunami waves generated by a 300ft calving glacier in Alaska and is the first and only foreigner to receive the Vasco da Gama Medal of Honor from the Portuguese Navy for his contributions to Portugal.

He currently lives between Hawaii and Portugal with his family where he and his wife run the McNamara Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on providing children meaningful nature experiences, creating life long stewards of the Earth.

In this conversation Garrett shares some incredible stories from his upbringing – which help make sense of how he became the man he is today.

Garrett is known in the surf world for being a pioneer and a master of his craft.

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0:00.0	I get a mantra of how you want to be all day every day and just meditate on that mantra.
0:07.4	And then it's hard to keep it going all day long.
0:10.8	It's good to do it one minute three times a day and if you want to go 10 or an hour or whatever that's fine and that's great but if you do the one minute you're already
0:18.8	working towards being a better person because you're setting the intention and
0:28.0	digesting it and saying it to yourself over and over how you want to be
1:07.0	how you want to contribute how you want to be saw how you want to be seen we all just want to be seen. We all just want to be loved, so love is the answer. Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervais, and by Trade and and Training a Sport and Performance Psychologist as well as the co-founder of compete to create and the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn in an implied way from people who have dedicated their life's efforts towards mastery. And we want to double click and understand how do they organize their inner life?
1:12.0	How do they make their inner life?
1:12.6	How do they make sense of themselves in the world
1:14.6	and events around them?
1:16.1	And then how do they use their mind
1:17.6	to build and refine their craft?
1:19.7	And then we also want to double click
1:20.9	and understand what are they searching for and when they reach obstacles or they have internal setbacks, how do they manage that process to stay forward to live with passion and to be able to persevere towards that vision, that thing that they're searching for.
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