Michael Gervais: Master Your Mindset and Stop Worrying About What Other People Think
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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We are thrilled to welcome Michael Gervais to the podcast today. Dr. Gervais is one of the world’s top high-performance psychologists and leading experts on the relationship between the mind and human performance. He has spent his career helping the best of the best across the worlds of business, sports, the arts, and science when they need to achieve the extraordinary. His clients include world record holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed artists and musicians, MVPs from every major sport and Fortune 100 CEOs.
He is the founder of Finding Mastery, a high-performance psychology consulting agency that helps individuals and innovative companies solve the most dynamic human performance challenges through mindset training. Dr. Gervais is also the host of the Finding Mastery Podcast and the co-creator of the Performance Science Institute at USC.
We've had tons of experts on the podcast talking about the physical aspects of sport, but this episode is focused on the mindset piece of high performance which is a critical aspect whether you want to excel in sport, business, or any type of activity. Michael joins us to talk about mastering your mindset and the importance of not worrying about what others think.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.0 | And you're listening to the Ready State podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | We are thrilled to welcome Michael Jervais to the podcast today. |
| 0:20.0 | Dr. Jervais is one of the world's top |
| 0:22.0 | high-performance psychologists and leading experts on the relationship between the mind and human |
| 0:27.3 | performance. He has spent his career helping the best of the best across the worlds of business, |
| 0:32.9 | sports, the arts, and science when they need to achieve the extraordinary. His clients include world record |
| 0:39.2 | holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed artists and musicians, MVPs from every major sport |
| 0:45.3 | and Fortune 100 CEOs. He is the founder of Finding Mastery, a high-performance psychology consulting |
| 0:51.3 | agency that helps individuals and innovative companies solve the |
| 0:55.4 | most dynamic human performance challenges through mindset training. Dr. Jervais is also the host of |
| 1:00.9 | the Finding Mastery podcast and the co-creator of the Performance Science Institute at USC. |
| 1:07.2 | Straight up, everyone, you're going to hear me just gush about this incredible human being the further |
| 1:14.0 | along i get in my coaching career where i'm asked to come in and help untangle complex problems of |
| 1:21.2 | high performance we just continue to see a dearth of mindset frameworks people just People just have zero training here. It's shocking. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah, and one of the things I loved about this is that on this podcast, we have had a lot of people who |
| 1:36.0 | have spoken to the physical. You know, we've had nutritionists and coaches of all stripes and |
| 1:40.6 | athletes, and we haven't had as many experts come in and talk to us about |
| 1:44.9 | this mindset piece, which is so important in high performance, anything, whether it's |
| 1:49.9 | athletics or business or whatever anyone's trying to do well. There's a nuance here I want to |
| 1:56.3 | just quickly discuss in that sometimes people hear sports psychology and that's like how do I get better |
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