Mental Skills Training ft. Michael Gervais
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Michael Gervais is the cofounder of Compete To Create, and the Performance Psychologist for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. This week he’s joining the Brute Podcast for the third time to talk about mental skills training, mindset training, and reimagining what it means to be human in modern times.
As Michael puts it, it is one thing to know yourself, but its another thing to remain “yourself” in high-pressure situations.
In this episode Michael shares his insight on what’s really going on between the ears of the elite one-percenters and uncovers their habits and behaviors all that lead to mastery.
Topics:
13:35 - Kobe Bryant & dealing with loss
29:10 - Thoughts are behaviors
32:40 - Feedback loops
41:35 - Root cause & pattern recognition
57:35 - Is more really better?
63:10 - Working with Pete Carl
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| 0:00.0 | I'm trying to get harder and tougher mentally and physically every day. |
| 0:04.0 | You're either the growth mindset or you're the fixed mindset. |
| 0:07.0 | If you're trying to be the best, you need to look at who the best is and see what they do. |
| 0:11.0 | Relentless pursuit of progress. |
| 0:14.0 | There's a difference between the best and the rest. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Champions are built in the morning first. |
| 0:24.2 | Where we interview scientists, world champions, |
| 0:26.6 | doctors and experts, |
| 0:28.0 | in just about every area of health and fitness. |
| 0:30.4 | What do you care enough about? |
| 0:32.1 | What are you fascinated enough about to go so deep and learn so much that you'll know more about it than anyone else? |
| 0:39.0 | And now here's your host, Michael Kasyu. I'm your host and today I'm talking to |
| 1:06.6 | Michael Gervay. Michael is one of my favorite people on the planet to talk to and this is our third episode together |
| 1:15.1 | Michael is a high performance psychologist and he works currently with the Seattle Seahawks. He's |
| 1:20.4 | worked with dozens of world record holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed |
| 1:25.2 | artists and musicians and MVPs from about every major sport including, well this is not |
| 1:30.9 | a sport, but he also works with some of the highest level |
| 1:34.4 | executives in the world working with Fortune 100 CEOs. He is a recognized speaker. |
| 1:40.0 | He's been on NBC, ABC, Fox, CNN, you name it, he's been on it ABC Fox CNN you name it he's been on it he is also the co-founder of a company called |
| 1:46.3 | compete to create that he founded with the Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll |
| 1:52.1 | where they work primarily well they started |
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