Shift Your Perspective of What's Possible | Jimmy Chin

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

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Jimmy Chin, an Academy Award winning filmmaker, National Geographic photographer and professional mountain sports athlete.

He has led or participated in cutting edge expeditions around the world for over 20 years.

Jimmy has climbed and skied Mount Everest from the summit and made significant first ascents on all seven continents including the coveted first ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru.

For those of you unfamiliar with Meru, it’s the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.

Jimmy’s photographs have graced numerous covers of National Geographic Magazine and the New York Times Magazine.

He co-produces and co-directs with his wife Chai Vasarhelyi.

Their film Meru won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and was on the 2016 Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature.

Their latest documentary Free Solo, featuring Alex Honnold, won a BAFTA, seven primetime Emmys and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s the first thing you should watch after you’re done listening to this podcast.

Jimmy’s resume precedes itself… I’d been wanting to have this conversation for a long time and I can’t wait for you to learn from him.

We talk about his unorthodox path to becoming a photographer and filmmaker, chasing dreams, and managing risk.We also discuss why he almost turned down making “Free Solo” which I think you’ll find captivating…

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0:00.0	The thing is is I didn't know he was going to free solo Al Cap. It was just pitched as like a story of a film about Alex and his free soloing.
0:10.0	In the process of kind of vetting the idea, my wife Chai was like, you know what, I need to spend some time with him and get to know him.
0:20.8	And in the time that she spent with him, you know, she spent two days with him and I was like, hey, what do you think of Alex? She's like, he's very, very interesting. And by the way, he told me that he's going to go free solo al cap isn't that great because Chai isn't from the climbing world and he didn't understand what that meant. And she said, that's a perfect, like,
0:46.9	focal point for the film.
0:48.7	And I just said, there's absolutely no way we can make that film. Introducing a camera to a situation no matter who you are, even if you're
1:00.0	Alexander changes the situation.
1:02.7	And when the margins of success,
1:04.8	that is the difference between life and death,
1:07.8	are so thin that the idea of the camera being there or the pressure of a production around what he was doing was even even for him if he barely felt it, but if that was the amount that it took for things to go bad, I was like, I don't want to carry that responsibility. And funny enough, we let the cat out of the bag at a meeting with Nat Geo and before we could even say anything, they were like, we're going to find, we'll finance that film and I was like
1:44.6	actually I'm not gonna make that film. Okay, welcome back, or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast.
1:57.4	Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery
2:01.0	Podcast. If this is your first, I'm so stoked for you, because I am geeked,
2:06.4	I'm flat out geeked on who we have on today.
2:09.7	And by trade and training, I am a sport and performance psychologist, and the whole idea about this
2:16.8	podcast, about the Finding Mastery Podcast, is to learn from people who are flat out switched
2:22.0	on, who have
2:22.8	have committed their life efforts towards exploring the boundaries of
2:26.4	their own potential and in doing so end up shifting what we
2:30.8	understand the potential of others.
2:34.0	And I'm more fascinated and more interested in those that have a deep understanding of self
2:39.0	and a deep commitment to mastery of craft.
2:42.0	And so that's what this conversation's about today.
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