Making the Best of Any Situation | Travis Pastrana

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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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Travis Pastrana.

If you're a fan of action sports, you know the name.

By four years old, Travis was already riding a one-speed motorcycle.

At the age of 14, he won the world freestyle championship.

Travis continued to display his versatility into the early 2000's racking up numerous Supercross and Motocross podiums as well a Motocross of Nations Championship title.

In 2001, Travis was awarded Motocross Rider of the Year at the ESPN Action Sports & Music Awards.

He has since accumulated 17 X-Games medals, including 11 gold medals, plus five golds from the Gravity Games, as well more wins at other events including Dew Tour and Red Bull X-Fighters.

At the 2006 X Games, Travis redefined what was possible in Freestyle Motocross with his groundbreaking double backflip on a motorbike.

As one of the founders and ringleader of Nitro Circus, Travis is committed to the progression of action sports as a whole and has set his sights on redefining the sport of rallycross with the evolution of Nitro Rallycross.

Travis is highly skilled at risk – and I think you’ll be fascinated to learn why he’s comfortable in high consequence environments.

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0:00.0	I enjoyed the process of challenging myself. I enjoyed the process of figuring out if I had what it took to process of trying to be the best that I could be.
0:12.0	And I never had that put on me that it had to be the best that I could be and I never had that put on me that it had to be the best of anyone else and never expected to make it. I just wanted to know. I loved waking up in the morning and saying how can I be better at and that's why for me it's changed how can I be better at
0:27.7	for a while is racing motorcycles how can I be better at doing freestile how can I be better at driving a car How can I be a better husband and father?
0:35.4	Is kind of where the process is now where you wake up and you're like, okay, this is a challenge,
0:40.1	you know, and it's not easy. Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay and by trade and training
0:59.4	I'm a sport and performance psychologist as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create.
1:04.7	This podcast Finding Mastery, the whole design is to learn from people who have spent so much
1:11.0	time understanding how to get better that they are on the path of mastery.
1:16.6	They understand the nuances of what it takes to become their very best.
1:22.0	And what we're trying to learn is what are they
1:24.2	searching for and what are the mechanisms that have revealed and how have they
1:28.6	uncovered their purpose. We want to also understand what are the mental skills that they use to build and
1:34.8	refine their craft. We also want to understand how do they make sense of events in their lives.
1:40.9	Now this week's conversation is with Travis Pestrana. So if you're a
1:46.9	fan of action sports you know his name he is a flat out legend and I mean from a very early age, age four, he was already riding one-speed motorcycles.
1:58.0	So he literally grew up in motorsports and by the age of 14 he won the world freestyle championship.
2:05.1	So I set the tone of that because he's been in his craft for years and his
2:11.6	legacy is ridiculous in the world of sport and action sport.
2:16.0	But if you're not familiar with his work, I want to set the narrative right because people in action sports are very skilled at risk taking. They're very purposeful about how to get
2:26.1	better because when they make mistakes, the consequences are real. So this conversation is really
2:31.6	about the arc of becoming, about navigating risk, and really how one fundamentally
2:38.3	organizes their life toward specific aims. So Travis in his early career he was collecting
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