Performance Psychology, Mindfulness, Self-Mastery ft. Michael Gervais - Ep. 52
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Brute Strength Podcast, we'll be talking all about the Mind & Performance Psychology. I had the chance to interview Michael Gervais (@michaelgervais), a highly decorated Sports Psychologist for the Seattle Sea Hawks, regarding some of the common mental attributes in today's top level performers. We'll be getting into things like mindfulness, brain mapping, gratitude journaling, and a bunch of tips and tricks that you can start applying to your daily routine today. Join us as we begin going down the path to mastery & self-discovery.
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Topics of discussion:
[1:40] Psychology
- Understanding how the minds works
- Working with the Seattle Sea Hawks
[7:35] Daily practices that will help keep you in the Present
- How to train your mind
- Self-Discovery
[10:10] 3-Tips to help figuring out who you are
- Understanding your thoughts
[15:15] Journaling & Why you should be doing it
[27:42] Motivation
[35:30] Vulnerability, Openness, and Growth
[38:19] Brain mapping
- 4 Brain waves (Alpha, Beta, Theta, Delta)
[47:00] Team work, Team building
[55:55] Felix Baumgartner & overcoming fear
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? This is Mike Cashew and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | This week I interviewed Michael Jervais, sports psychologist. |
| 0:08.1 | Mike works with everyone from NFL players to Olympians, NHL, MLB, top level executives and performance |
| 0:18.3 | of all different kinds. In this show, we go into everything mental, |
| 0:25.2 | everything from mindfulness to brain mapping, to gratitude, journaling, tricks, strategies, |
| 0:33.4 | conversations that he has and gives to all of these top level performers. |
| 0:38.8 | So I know you're going to walk away from this with a ton of new knowledge. |
| 0:43.9 | Before we get started, if you're interested in keeping up with all of the free content |
| 0:50.1 | that we're putting out, podcasts, videos, blog articles, free programming, stuff like that. |
| 0:56.4 | Go to brute strength training.com, sign up for the newsletter. |
| 0:59.9 | Hope you enjoy the show. |
| 1:01.4 | What's up, everyone? |
| 1:02.6 | I'm here with Michael Gerveus of the Seattle Seahawks. |
| 1:07.6 | Am I saying that right, Mike? |
| 1:09.4 | It is Michael Gervey. Gervey jerva all right man thank you for |
| 1:14.0 | making time out of your busy schedule for me man I'm I could not be more excited about this |
| 1:18.7 | interview oh cool thank you I'm looking forward to it as well so officially you are the |
| 1:25.9 | sports psychologist of the Seahawks. |
| 1:28.3 | Do you have any other titles with any other organizations? |
| 1:31.3 | I know you've worked with a million different professional athletes and performers. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah, that's a great question. |
| 1:39.3 | Technically, so let me bring you into the windy, kind of complicated world of licensing in the world, in the world of psychology, is that technically I'm licensed in California as a sport psychologist. |
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