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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Life Lessons from Death, Risk, and Mother Nature | Mountaineering Legend, Conrad Anker

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Conrad Anker, an absolute legend who has been pushing the limits of mountaineering for the last 30 years, evolving into one of America’s best alpinists. 

At age 56, Conrad’s resume continues to grow, having notched the long-awaited first ascent of the Meru Shark’s Fin in India with partners Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk in 2011, which led to the Sundance-winning documentary, Meru. 

Conrad has climbed Everest three times, including a 2012 trip with National Geographic to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first American ascent of the mountain. 

Though true alpine routes have been his forte, his résumé also includes big wall first ascents on El Capitan and first free ascents in Zion National Park. 

In 1997 alone, he completed first ascents in Antarctica, Pakistan’s Karakorum and on Yosemite’s El Capitan.

So Conrad operates in high consequence environments, places where the luxury of a mistake is often not afforded. Like so many explorers of nature and human nature, he doesn’t consider himself a risk-taker, but someone who works in high risk environments. It’s a forcing function, like none other than I know – to get to the truth and the purity of thought and action. 

It forces best judgment, and the rewards and consequences of such. And because of that, he’s come to have a deep relationship with life - with people and mother nature – his experience, with experience.

I hope that for all of us – to know oneself, others, to know mother nature – and to have a meaningful relationship with experience. To be able to work well with feelings, emotions, thoughts and the unfolding world outside of you.  

Mark his movie right now - you’ll definitely want to watch it – it’s called “Torn” (available on Disney+).

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having experienced death in the vicinity through climbing accidents and, you know, specifically the accident with Alex Lowe and David Bridges and then coming back 16 years later in pulling their bodies out of the glacier and and cremating them. It's like, yeah, I understand death and mortality, but not in a trivialized sensational way that is used to as entertainment, but rather more like it's something that we're all going to face.

0:29.0

But we have to treat it with respect.

0:41.0

Welcome. This is the Finding Mastery podcast and I'm Dr. Michael Jervet by trade and training a sport and performance psychologist and I am fortunate to work with some of the most extraordinary thinkers and doers across the planet.

0:54.0

And that was the impetus for this podcast, these conversations is to learn from people who are challenging the edges and the reaches of the human experience and business and sport and science in life in general.

1:08.0

We are going to pull back the curtain to explore how they have committed to mastering both their craft and their minds in an effort to express their potential.

1:17.0

Through these conversations, you'll not only hear their stories, but you'll learn the habits and practices and mindsets that help them achieve and experience the extraordinary.

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