Nicholas McCarthy: Music, Insight, Investing in Craft
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2016
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
The conversations we have with ourselves either facilitate or slow down the pursuit to understand potential. It is not the external obstacles that determine one’s path, rather, the process of working with the challenges that accompany all of us who want to “go for it” in life. Nicholas McCarthy was born in 1989 without his right hand and only began to play the piano at the late age of 14.
In This Episode: -Overcoming a late start to playing the piano -The confidence his parents instilled in him from early age -Visualizing the thing he was told he couldn’t do -His process for embracing challenge -Using imagery as a guide for performing in new venues -Why he loves the piano -The transition from amateur to pro -The meaning behind anything is possible -How he deals with his inner critic -Belief as a word that cuts to the center of what he stands for -Creating a relationship with his fans through music -Exercise as a method for staying mentally strong
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Master Podcast, I'm Michael Jervay. And the idea behind these conversations |
| 0:15.4 | is to sit down with people who are on the path of mastery to better understand what they're |
| 0:19.9 | searching for and to really dive into what is their psychological framework. |
| 0:25.0 | And the reason that's important is so that we can have some context and some understanding about why and how they make decisions. |
| 0:33.0 | Oftentimes when we have conversations with people that are just wonderfully switched on, |
| 0:38.0 | it sounds like they say much of the same as other people that are also switched on. |
| 0:43.6 | And in these conversations, it's the context |
| 0:46.0 | and the backstory of the framework |
| 0:48.1 | about how they understand how the world works |
| 0:50.4 | and how they fit in it that really is the peeling back of the onion, if you will, to understand how they value the decisions that they make, what they've learned from those decisions, and how they orientate themselves to do things in the future. |
| 1:05.0 | So the center of what we're trying to get to by the end of the conversation is like, |
| 1:10.0 | what are the mental skills that they find to be valuable and how are they training them. |
| 1:14.4 | Okay and it's the how that's more than that's way more important than the what. |
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| 1:57.1 | dopamine, among many other potential factors, of course. |
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