190: Dr. Michael Gervais - Finding Mastery • How To Train Optimism • Pain Is Necessary For Change

Dr. Michael Gervais is a High-Performance Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience working in high-stakes environments with some of the top athletes, musicians, and executives, in the world.

Sharing the training and mindset skills of “the best of the best,” Michael can help anyone experience high performance in their own lives.

He is known for his work with the Super Bowl winning Seattle Seahawks and has appeared on Tim Ferris’ Fear{less} and has been featured in The NY Times, Forbes, and Sports Illustrated.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What life was like growing up with hippie parents
• Rebelling as a kid can be valuable
• There's a naiveté that can come from living out in the sticks
• Thinking about what is going wrong vs what you want to happen
• The more present we become the more we're able to experience in life
• The old 7pm is the new midnight
• The new threat for our ancient brain... what other people think about us
• Embrace our DNA and then override parts of it that are no longer working
• Optimal daily dose of mindfulness or meditation
• We learn to be optimistic or pessimistic
• How to train optimism
• How do we begin to build confidence and a stronger sense of self
• The three things we can train, as humans
• Running to the edge of instability on a daily basis is a requirement for growth
• Pain is necessary to make fundamental changes
• Look forward to being uncomfortable because that's when the good stuff is taking place
• A sixty second exercise to wake up your mind and spirit, in the morning
• Imagery is about all of your senses
• Finding out who your true self is and living from that place
• You don't have to entertain your negative thoughts

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