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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

The True Meaning of Strength | Chris Duffin

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

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Chris Duffin, a world-record holding powerlifter who is commonly known as the “Mad Scientist of Strength”.

Chris is arguably one of the strongest pound-for-pound humans in the world – he is the only person to squat and deadlift over 1,000 pounds for reps, has a Guinness World Record for the sumo deadlift, and was ranked the number one powerlifter in the world for eight years straight. 

However, Chris’ strength extends far beyond the physical domain – in his best-selling memoir The Eagle and The Dragon, Chris tells the unfiltered version of his unconventional and harrowing journey from a boy born in chaos to the self-made man he is today. 

And that’s what this conversation is all about – how true strength is about so much more than lifting heavy weights. Chris shares how struggle propelled him forward, how he responds to adversity, what it means to be there for others, and how the human spirit can be either shackled by circumstance or freed from it.

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0:00.0

I'm not, I'm not downplaying any trauma or things that have happened to people,

0:04.4

but at the same time understanding, these are things that you don't have control of and they're

0:08.7

not what define you. You're defined by your actions and responses to those things. And even if it's

0:16.3

been significantly horrible, there's no reason why let it be that, why let that be the defining thing

0:22.9

and that you can still use and leverage what you can from that to, to become more resilient,

0:30.0

to withstand the things that you don't anticipate that are coming next.

0:42.8

Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast.

0:47.6

My name is Dr. Michael Jervé and by trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist.

0:54.0

Now the whole idea behind these conversations behind this podcast is to learn from people,

0:59.0

to learn from the extraordinary, to better understand how they organize their internal life,

1:05.9

to be able to challenge the edges and the reaches of the human experience. And that comes in the

1:11.2

forms of business and sport and science and life in general. And what we're doing is working to pull

1:17.1

back the curtain to explore how they have committed to mastering both their craft and their minds

1:22.0

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