The Hack is to Feel the Pain - Dr. Michael Gervais : 561
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
As a high-performance psychologist, Michael Gervais, Ph.D. works in the trenches of high-stakes environments, where there is no luxury for mistakes, hesitation or failure to respond. He works individually and with groups of high-profile people from every major sport, Olympians, Fortune 100 CEOs, as well as internationally acclaimed artists and musicians.
He’s also a revered speaker on optimal human performance and has been featured in many national print and television media outlets.
Michael is the co-founder of Compete to Create, a joint venture with Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, which has built a framework to enhance high-performance cultures by focusing on mindset training for individuals.
Ultimately, Mike’s goal is to unpack, then decode how the greatest performers in the world use their minds to pursue the boundaries of human potential. To accelerate that aim, he has curated conversations with those who have dedicated their lives to becoming the best in his podcast Finding Mastery.
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we talk about how mindset influences performance, why Mike considers himself a “curious Adventurepreneur” and why he disagrees with “hacking.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asbury. |
| 0:16.6 | Today's cool fact of the day is that your brain activity is as unique as your fingerprint, |
| 0:23.0 | and new research has come out that suggests your brain activity could be used like a fingerprint. |
| 0:27.8 | Scientists use functional MRI or FMRI to create connectivity profiles that allowed researchers |
| 0:34.4 | to identify brain activities of more than 100 people. |
| 0:38.4 | Now, scientists use individual brain connectivity to give them specific insights about your intelligence |
| 0:44.8 | or personality. |
| 0:45.8 | By the way, at 40 years of then, we can teach your brain to have new connections didn't have |
| 0:49.8 | before, which is part of what we do with one of the many different forms of neurofeedback we have there. |
| 0:54.6 | But here they said it has implications for how scanning brains could be used to develop individualized care. |
| 1:01.8 | But I predict 20 years from now, it's not like you're going to need stickers on your head or electrodes |
| 1:08.0 | the way we do it now. |
| 1:09.2 | You're going to be able to pick these signals up from a distance, which means you'll walk in front of your iPhone 20 years from now |
| 1:15.6 | and it won't have to recognize your face because it recognize your brain. |
| 1:18.2 | How cool is that, right? |
| 1:19.6 | Or scarier than hell, one of the two. |
| 1:21.2 | You decide. |
| 1:23.2 | Today's guest is a high-performance psychologist who works in the trenches and high stakes environments where there's no luxury |
| 1:30.4 | for mistakes or hesitation or failure to respond. |
| 1:33.4 | We're talking with people from every major sport, Olympians, Fortune 100 CEOs, |
| 1:40.4 | as well as some of the biggest names you've heard of in terms of artists and musicians. |
| 1:45.6 | He's a revered speaker on human performance and you've probably seen him in print and TV and things like that. |
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