What the world teaches us that mistakes are bad, I mean just you know go back to any simple

childhood memory where you did something wrong and you made a mistake and the mistake was

punished.

What we're taught is that making mistakes is bad

so that we should avoid them.

But what we really should be taught,

it's not about avoiding mistakes. It's about error recovery. It's about making mistakes and actually being able to

recover quickly from them. When you make a mistake and recover quickly just a couple of times there's a part of you a

light switch that flix on and says wow I actually learned something really

valuable I got comfortable being uncomfortable and now I'm better because of it.

All right,

Welcome back or welcome to The Finding Mastery Podcast.

I'm Michael Jervay and by Trade and Training, I'm a Sport and Performance Psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create.

I just got to say 2020 already is incredibly exciting.

And so I hope it is for you and if you're on the other side of it and you're struggling.

You know, I hope you're finding some peace and knowing that all things are temporary.

So that being said, the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn but to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery.

And what we want to do is we want to not just learn for the sake of consumption, but learn in a way that has clear application.

And in doing that, we want to set the context for how do these extraordinary people organize

their inner life? Like what is their psychological framework? How do they make sense of themselves,

their purpose in life, how do they explain events, something as small as people

rolling their eyes, to something as grand as, you know, I don't know, catastrophes that are happening across our planet.

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