Ryan Holiday x Dr. Michael Gervais: The First Rule of Mastery, Stoicism, and Identity (from The Daily Stoic)
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
A couple months back I was in Austin doing some promo for The First Rule of Mastery and had the opportunity to be a guest on Ryan Holiday’s incredible podcast, The Daily Stoic.
It’s always such a joy to connect and flow with Ryan – we had a fantastic conversation that I wanted to share here today.
This time around was especially fun… not only was the conversation great, but we also got to record it in Ryan’s epic bookstore, The Painted Porch.
If you’re in or near Austin… you have to check it out. It is awesome. And you might even find a couple signed copies of The First Rule of Mastery lying around ;)
Please enjoy this conversation with me and the ever-insightful Ryan Holiday on The Daily Stoic.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I am your host Dr Michael Jervay by Trade and Training a high performance psychologist and today I'm really excited to share something just a little different. A couple months back I was in |
| 0:14.7 | Austin doing some promos for the first rule of mastery and I had the opportunity to be a guest |
| 0:21.1 | on Ryan Holliday's incredible podcast, The Daily Stoic. |
| 0:25.0 | It's always such a joy to connect and flow with Ryan. |
| 0:29.0 | And we had a fantastic conversation that I really wanted to just share that here with you today. |
| 0:34.0 | So this time around was especially fun. |
| 0:37.0 | Not only was a conversation great, but we also got to record it in Ryan's |
| 0:41.0 | Epic bookstore, The Painted Porch. |
| 0:44.0 | If you're in or near Austin, you've got to check it out. |
| 0:46.7 | It is awesome. |
| 0:48.1 | And you might even find a couple signed copies of the first rule of mastery lying around. So with that, please enjoy |
| 0:55.5 | this conversation with me and the ever insightful Ryan Holiday on the Daily Stoic. Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic |
| 1:11.0 | podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | So the story of my books and professional sports |
| 1:16.0 | is that the Patriots read, the Ops Goes Away in like 2014. |
| 1:20.7 | That was that famous game. The one yard line, the interception against the |
| 1:26.8 | the Seahawks. The Patriots end up winning the Super Bowl, the Seahawks |
| 1:31.2 | heartbreakingly lose the Super Bowl, |
| 1:33.3 | Bowl, and I remember I watched that game |
| 1:36.3 | getting off of a plane and watching it standing in airport. |
| 1:40.8 | Because you can, it wasn't, the plane I was on didn't have much streaming |
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