Nate Boyer: Going For It (Part 1)
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2016
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Some people think about adventure — and others make their life a living adventure. Nate graduated high school unsure about his path in life. Looking for a challenge and to make a difference, he made his way to the Darfur region of Sudan to help in the refugee camps. The experience, coupled with his memories of 9/11, inspired him to enlist in the U.S. Army as a Special Forces candidate, and he became one of 11 from his class of 150 to graduate with a Green Beret. He has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, earning a Bronze Star for heroism in combat.
In this episode: -Appreciating the Process -Being fueled by negative energy -Why you can’t be afraid to fail -Looking up to his father -Why he got into trouble as a kid -The “Blue Collar” Way -The challenges of giving your children everything or nothing -Embracing change and becoming uncomfortable -What motivated him to go to Darfur -Confidence v. Cockiness -Having a purpose -Why making a difference is important to him -Outworking everyone else -Utilizing self-talk -Training the mind to reject negative thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay. And the idea behind these |
| 0:15.6 | podcasts is to have conversations with people who are on the path of |
| 0:18.9 | mastery. And certainly there as we've come to learn there's so many paths, and some are conventional, and some are unconventional, and most of the ones we've had conversations with are really unconventional. |
| 0:30.0 | And this conversation is no different. |
| 0:33.0 | And throughout this conversation, what will come to learn is that, you know, there's some people that go for it and some people that play it safe. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm waiting to understand how a conservative approach is the path towards mastery. |
| 0:47.0 | And I know it's there. I just haven't been able to learn about it and from it yet. |
| 0:52.0 | In this conversation, we're going to reinforce the importance of having an idea, being inspired, being consumed with it, |
| 1:00.0 | and then being able to figure out the skills necessary to be able to execute against the vision. |
| 1:06.0 | And part of that skill prerequisite is to be able to let it rip, to take a shot, to go for it, to embrace what is not known, and trust one's own ability to be able to adjust to the unknown. |
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