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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Mark Healey, Professional Big Wave Surfer/Waterman

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

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

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Mark Healey, a professional big-wave surfer, award-winning spear-fisherman, free-diver, photographer, filmmaker, and part-time Hollywood stuntman.

Mark’s made no shortage of major achievements in his career as a waterman.

Earning his first surf sponsorship at age 13 and going pro at 17, the 31-year-old has racked up victories at big-wave events like Todos Santos and—in 2008—nabbed the Spearfishing World Cup.

While he’s encountered his share of close calls—from shark attacks to blackouts—Mark thrives on the elements of danger inherent to his work.

And that is a central part of this conversation.

We discuss embracing challenges and why it’s important to face adversity head on rather than run from it.

When you get to that edge, that point where you’re uncomfortable, that’s where you really learn what’s possible for yourself.

Mark is wise beyond his years and I can’t wait for you to learn from him.

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all the white trucks that I've interacted with I picked the ones that were showing me all the

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cues that I wanted to see and I never had anything but them being very common.

0:09.9

Actually, you know, I know it sounds outlandish, but wanting that interaction, actually seeking

0:17.1

that interaction after a couple of goes.

0:20.2

But then, you know, there's other ones that have totally different personalities and that's not the case.

0:26.0

I don't want to get anywhere near them and I don't want to let them anywhere near me. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervay, and by Trade and Training, I'm a sport and

0:45.2

performance psychologist.

0:46.5

And the whole idea behind these conversations, behind this podcast, is to learn from people

0:51.6

who are on the path of mastery,

0:53.5

to work to better understand their psychological framework,

0:56.8

to understand what they're searching for,

0:59.4

what they're driven by,

1:00.7

and to really dig to understand the mental skills that they use, how they use them, to build and refine their craft.

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