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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Nolan Bushnell, Creator of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with inventor and entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell.

In 1972 Nolan Bushnell created an industry when he founded Atari and gave the world Pong, the first blockbuster video game.

Today his design credo—that games should be “easy to learn and difficult to master”—is inspiring a new generation of developers.

A prolific entrepreneur, Bushnell has started more than 20 companies, including Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theater, Catalyst Technologies, the first Silicon Valley incubator, and Etak, the first in-car navigation system.

In the process, he pioneered many of the workplace innovations that have made Silicon Valley a long- standing magnet for creative talent.

Bushnell was the first and only person ever to hire Steve Jobs, which he details in his 2013 book, Finding the Next Steve Jobs.

His latest startups are ModalVR, which offers wireless, multiplayer VR entertainment systems for turn-key commercial use, and X2 Games, an independent game publisher focused on Blockchain Technology.

A true icon of the digital revolution, Bushnell was named one of “50 People Who Changed America” by Newsweek.

Currently a biopic about Bushnell, tentatively titled “Atari”, was acquired by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company and is in pre- production.

Nolan is an absolute legend and I can’t wait for you to learn from him.

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0:00.0

One of the things about innovation is that experience doesn't help that much because we're figuring new stuff out and so if you're a surgeon you you need a lot of experience and all that sort of stuff but when you're doing a brand new

0:17.0

company with in a marketplace that previously hasn't existed in the technology

0:22.2

that hasn't been put together that way or what have you. Anybody with passion is probably

0:30.6

at the same starting line. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery

0:44.2

podcast. I'm Michael Jervay and by trading training a sport and

0:48.0

performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to

0:51.4

Create. And the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these

0:54.8

conversations is a sit down with people who are not just genius at what they do,

1:00.0

but have a deep understanding about how they work.

1:03.0

And we want to understand from the most extraordinaryes in the world.

1:07.0

Those thinkers and doers, how do they organize their inner life,

1:10.0

how are they structuring their life to flourish, to pursue their potential, and what

1:15.6

are the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft?

1:19.4

I am really excited to announce that this year finding mastery is releasing our first ever

1:24.8

holiday gift guide. Yes. Having spent decades working with and around some of the most

1:31.0

driven people on the planet.

1:33.0

I know the high-performer types in your life can be a little tricky to buy for.

1:37.5

Their standards tend to be really high, they rarely settle.

1:41.5

We all know the drill here. And that's why we put together a list of some of our favorite

1:45.8

products that have been utilized by many of the leaders and athletes and creatives that we've worked with on the path

1:51.9

for them to be able to reach their potential.

1:54.1

The products that are on this list are all products that I use.

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