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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

The Relationship Between Fear and Inner Drive | Big Wave Surfer, Mark Mathews

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Mark Mathews, a world-class big wave surfer, Red Bull Athlete and Surf Contest Director.

He’s made a living at the intersection of danger and excitement and knows all too well the crippling grasp of fear.

While in Tasmania, fifteen feet in front of a cliff in cold, shark infested waters, Mark hit a reef and instantly blacked out. Terror engulfed every inch of his being. Neck braced and hospital-ridden, he didn’t know if he could ever surf again.

At that moment, Mark made a decision never to allow fear to overpower him again.

Mark has deconstructed, fine-tuned, and personalized emotion and resilience techniques to successfully strengthen his mindset and sustain long term performance.

These techniques have helped him win an unprecedented three consecutive Oakley Big Wave Awards and cement him as one of the best big wave surfers in the world.

In this conversation, we discuss the strategies Mark’s developed to overcome fear and how you can apply them in your own life.

And keep in mind – this is someone who surfs some of the biggest waves known to mankind – waves as big as 80+ feet.

Mark believes that conquering fear starts with being aware and in-tune with what your motivations are – you’ve got to want the result on the other side more than you fear doing what it takes to get there.

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The mastery, managing that fear and the stress, you know, to do something consistently that other people don't want to do consistently because it's scary not because they technically can't do it. Like of course I can't take a 40 year old and build the surfing technique to be able to do it but it's not it's average level

0:26.5

surfing with high-level mastery of fear and anxiety that's the way I kind of look at what I do. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay and by Trade and Training,

0:50.5

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compete to create. And the whole idea behind these conversations behind this

0:58.5

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1:02.9

They're flat out on it.

1:04.1

They've dedicated their life efforts

1:06.0

to unlocking, to understanding, to living in alignment,

1:09.5

to really going into the nuances of their craft and understanding at the deepest level

1:14.9

both mastery of self and mastery of craft. And what does that mean? That means we

1:19.9

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1:24.3

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