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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Undefeated Founder James Bond on Risk, Creative, Being Real

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Mindset, Finding Mastery, Business, Sport Psychology, Education, Health & Fitness, Michael Gervais, Psychology, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-improvement, Self Help

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

James Bond, co-founder of Undefeated, is one of the most recognized and well-curated sneaker boutiques in the world. In This Episode: -Growing up mixed race in a tough Philadelphia neighborhood -The impact his grandpa had on his sense of style -Abusing alcohol & drugs from the early age of 11 -Dealing with anger growing up -Wanting to be someone he wasn’t -Moving from Philadelphia to LA and his introduction into sneaker heads -How he got into show business -Evolving from shoes to a designing a clothing line -What triggers his creativity -The importance of valuing family

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervay.

0:14.0

And the idea behind these conversations is to sit down with people who are on the path of

0:17.8

mastery, to understand their psychological framework, which is not an easy thing to do.

0:24.3

Psychological frameworks, like even though it's just two simple little words, it's dynamic and it's

0:28.8

complicated and it's invisible and it's moving and it's not something that is static and rigid, especially for those

0:35.6

that are on the creative spectrum and those that are pushing the edges and boundaries of

0:40.0

what they think is possible for themselves and sometimes what ends up being possible for a global standard.

0:46.0

And you know we're wanting to understand the inner, the mental skills and the way that they understand how to refine the mental part of the game to refine their craft.

0:56.0

And these conversations, they're rich.

0:59.0

And because of that, we've also opened up another podcast called minutes on mastery, which are insights and applied

1:06.4

gems from those on the Path of Mastery and sent to you under three minutes a day.

1:12.4

And it's just a way to stay fresh and current

1:14.1

with some of the past conversations and some of the current ones as well.

1:18.6

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1:22.4

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1:25.2

to consume roughly around 20% of your energy every day. That means an important

1:30.3

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1:34.0

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1:50.2

tired or stressed or unmotivated,

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