TBT: Program Your Mind For Improved Performance And Greater Self-Awareness ft. Michael Gervais
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Brute Strength Podcast, I will be speaking with my good friend Michael Gervais. In this episode we get into mindfulness, improving your focus, and how to re-program your brain for success. Michael is one of the best in the world at what he does and having him appear on our show for the second time is a true honor. If you really like the topics on this episode be sure to check out our first talk on Episode 52. Enjoy the show.
Topics of discussion:
03:30 - Working with Olympic athletes
07:27 - Managing the levels of pressure
10:30 - Programming your mental “software”
21:25 - Improving internal motivation
25:50 - Pillars of mindfulness
32:01 - Change your relationship with failure
36:40 - Is confidence overrated?
41:00 - Choosing good thoughts
49:25 - 3 practices to add to your morning routine
Links:
Books:
Deep Work - Newport
The Way of the Champion - Lynch & Huang
Man’s Search For Meaning - Frankl
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| 0:00.0 | I'm trying to get harder and tougher mentally and physically every day. |
| 0:04.0 | You're either the growth mindset or you're the fixed mindset. |
| 0:07.0 | If you're trying to be the best, you need to look at who the best is and see what they do. |
| 0:11.0 | Relentless pursuit of progress. |
| 0:14.0 | There's a difference between the best and the rest. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Champions are built in the morning first. |
| 0:24.2 | Where we interview scientists, world champions, |
| 0:26.6 | doctors and experts, |
| 0:28.0 | in just about every area of health and fitness. |
| 0:30.4 | What do you care enough about? |
| 0:32.1 | What are you fascinated enough about to go so deep and learn so much that you'll know more about it than anyone else? |
| 0:39.0 | And now here's your host, Michael Kasyu, and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. |
| 1:03.0 | This week I'm back with one of my favorite guests of all time |
| 1:06.6 | sports psychologist Michael Jervais. |
| 1:09.1 | Mike is the mindset coach to dozens of Olympic athletes, the Seattle Seahawks, as well as a number of different Fortune 500 CEOs. |
| 1:18.0 | In general, he coaches some of the most top performing individuals on the planet, and he is himself one of the best in the world |
| 1:25.9 | at what he does. We start the conversation off by talking about the Olympics. He's got a number |
| 1:31.2 | of athletes in Pionk Chang and we talk about the conversation |
| 1:35.4 | that he has with them leading up to this event, which is the biggest event of their |
| 1:40.0 | entire lives. They've spent, you know, over a dozen years, many of them, training for all leading up to this one competition. So what does he tell them? What do they talk about to ensure that they can perform optimally on the biggest stage of their lives. |
| 1:56.8 | We talk about the possibility of taking someone |
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