Perfectionism, Self-Discovery, and Emotional Wellbeing | Dr. Peter Attia
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Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Peter Attia, a physician focusing on the applied science of longevity.
Peter earned his M.D. from Stanford University and holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics.
He trained for five years at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in general surgery, where he was the recipient of several prestigious awards, including resident of the year, and the author of a comprehensive review of general surgery.
Peter has since been mentored by some of the most experienced and innovative lipidologists, endocrinologists, gynecologists, sleep physiologists, and longevity scientists in the United States and Canada.
His practice deals extensively with nutritional interventions, exercise physiology, sleep physiology, emotional and mental health, and pharmacology to increase lifespan (delay the onset of chronic disease), while simultaneously improving healthspan (quality of life).
In this conversation, we discuss Peter’s journey – his battle with perfectionism, his quest to reinvent himself, and why emotional wellbeing is the thing that interests him the most right now.
Peter is downright one of the best at what he does so I think you’ll be fascinated to hear how his mind works.
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| 0:00.0 | when I lay on my deathbed, which I hope is 50 years from now, |
| 0:03.1 | but maybe it's a year from now. |
| 0:04.8 | We don't know how these things turn out. |
| 0:06.5 | But I actually think that when I look back from my deathbed, |
| 0:10.1 | the thing I will be most proud of, hands down. |
| 0:13.8 | Won't be any swim. |
| 0:15.6 | Won't be any body of literature. |
| 0:20.6 | Won't be anything I've done as a doctor. |
| 0:23.5 | Won't be any of the things. |
| 0:24.5 | It will be the decision to basically challenge every existing belief |
| 0:33.1 | that got me to a certain point in life and say, |
| 0:38.5 | you're going to go back and revisit all of that and potentially completely change |
| 0:43.7 | who you think you are so that you don't have to be a slave to that mentality. |
| 0:54.5 | OK, welcome back, or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast, |
| 1:03.6 | a Michael Jervé, and by trade and training, |
| 1:06.1 | I am a sport and performance psychologist. |
| 1:09.0 | Now, the whole idea behind these conversations behind this podcast |
| 1:12.0 | is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery, |
| 1:15.5 | to better understand what they're searching for, |
| 1:17.8 | to understand their framework. |
| 1:19.8 | How do they make sense of themselves? |
| 1:22.0 | How do they make sense of events around them? |
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