Matthew Futterman, NY Times Deputy Sports Editor
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Matthew Futterman, the deputy sports editor of The New York Times.
He has previously worked for The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Star-Ledger of New Jersey, where he was a part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News in 2005.
Matthew grew up in Larchmont, New York, and eventually found his way to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
One of his deep passions in life is running for long distances.
While we do discuss running, this conversation is more about how he uses his inner life to help others do the same, whether that's through his journalism at the New York Times or through his new book, Running to the Edge.
At its core, the book is more about insights and strategies toward improvement as a human, than it is about running tactics.
I've had the privilege of being interviewed by Matt, when he was at the Wall Street Journal and since then, I've followed his work.
He was one of the rare folks who've been able to capture the spirit of what I want to communicate about how people can flourish in life.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been a sportrator for going on 20 years I've been a reporter for about 25 years and I don't think I would do what I do. |
| 0:10.0 | I don't think I would write about sports. If it didn't help me sort of order the world, |
| 0:16.6 | understand life a little better, |
| 0:18.4 | understand myself, gain some insight, |
| 0:21.5 | and hopefully, hopefully, here's the big hope that the people that read my |
| 0:27.4 | stuff that it helps them gain some insight and help them get through the day and have some revelations about, you know, |
| 0:38.0 | what it means to be human. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. And I'm Michael Jervay by Trade and Training. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm a sport and performance psychologist |
| 0:56.6 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 0:59.5 | Now the whole idea behind these conversations |
| 1:01.2 | is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. |
| 1:03.9 | Who have a deep and a rich understanding and insight about how they work, how |
| 1:09.2 | their craft works, how the world around them works, how they organize their inner life, |
| 1:13.8 | to be able to flourish and meet the demands and challenges |
| 1:16.6 | of their external world. |
| 1:18.2 | And so we also want to dig to understand |
| 1:20.0 | the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft. |
| 1:24.7 | I am really excited to announce that this year, Finding Mastery is releasing our first |
| 1:29.7 | ever holiday gift guide. |
| 1:31.9 | Yes. Having spent decades working with and around some of the most |
| 1:36.2 | driven people on the planet, I know the high-performer types in your life can be a |
| 1:41.4 | little tricky to buy for. Their standards tend to be really high, they |
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