Mastery is an Infinite Game with performance psychologist Mike Gervais

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Fierce competition can lead to burnout. How do we train ourselves to maintain excellence without giving in to the pressure to perform?

High-performance psychologist Mike Gervais has a solution. He calls it mastery. Mike's approach to mastering our thoughts and emotions has helped Olympians win gold medals, the Seattle Seahawks win the Superbowl, and CEOs take their companies to the next level.

Mike and I sat down to discuss the psychological tools to fine-tune our inner voices and why focusing on purpose instead of outcome empowers us to accomplish difficult things.

This...is A Bit of Optimism.

To learn more about Mike's work, check out his podcast:

Finding Mastery

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0:00.0	We live in a world that demands that we pursue performance.
0:05.0	The stress it puts on our bodies and our minds leads to burnout,
0:09.0	mental health issues, and, ironically, performance issues.
0:13.0	High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais
0:16.0	has a solution.
0:17.0	He calls it mastery.
0:21.0	In the summer of 2020, in the small mountain town of Eideewild, California, five women disappeared in the span of just a few months.
0:33.0	Eventually, I found out what happened to the women, all except one.
0:38.0	A woman named Lydia Abrams, known as Dea.
0:42.0	Her friends and family ran through endless theories.
0:45.8	Were she hurt hiking? Did she run away? Had she been kidnapped?
0:50.1	I'm Lucy Sheriff. I've been reporting this story for four years and I've uncovered a tangled web of
0:57.7	manipulation, estranged families and greed. Everyone seems, has a different version of events.
1:07.0	Hear the story on Where's Dea,
1:10.0	my new podcast from Pushkin Industries and I Heart Podcasts.
1:15.0	Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:21.0	Hi, I'm Katie Lowe's, and I'm Gie Erma Diaz. costs. rewatching the show to officially unpacked season 3 of scandal.
1:34.3	Unpredictable you don't see it coming it's a wild wild ride the Twits and Turns in
1:38.9	season three mesmerizing. But also we get to hang out with all of our old scandal friends like Bellamy Young Scott Foley
1:46.0	Tony Goldwyn Debbie Allen Kerry Washington
1:48.7	So many people even more shocking assassinations from Papa and Mama Pope.
1:54.3	And yes, Katie and Eyes, famous teeth pulling scene that kicks off a romance.
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