Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dive into the minds of the world’s greatest athletes, leaders, thinkers, and doers with Dr. Michael Gervais—a high performance psychologist and world-renowned expert on the relationship between high performance and the mind. Dr. Gervais’s client roster includes Super Bowl winning NFL teams, Fortune 50 CEOs, Olympic medalists, internationally acclaimed artists, and more.
On Finding Mastery, Dr. Gervais sits down with the best at what they do, like David Goggins, Brene Brown, Toto Wolff, soccer legend Abby Wambach, neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — translating their life stories, mental skills, and personal practices into applicable tools you can use to unlock your potential.
Walk with us to the edge of human possibility and learn what you are capable of. New episodes every Wednesday.
Education
Psychology
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Self Help
Mental Health
Self-Improvement
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Health & Fitness
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 72 minutes
- Episodes
- 573
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Kevin Levrone: Strength
The path toward mastery requires honoring what is true. Often times what is true can be intensely painful. Kevin Levrone walks us through his journey of loss, grief, turmoil, love, commitment, and ri…
01:57:16 |
Wed 02 Dec 2015
Ashley Merryman: Science of Competition
The origin of the word "compete" emphasizes the notion of striving together (as compared to striving against). Author Ashley Merryman takes a deep dive into the science of competition - and reveals p…
01:49:55 |
Wed 25 Nov 2015
Michael Gervais: Finding Mastery
As the fable goes — there are three paths for each us, to become: The Old Fool: the person who chased external rewards and pleasures. The Bitter Old Fool: the person who chased external rewards, but …
00:29:18 |
Fri 20 Nov 2015
Dave Phillips: Golf & Entreprenuership
One of the accelerants to growth is surrounding ourselves with people that have insight…..another accelerant is going down the path of developing insight within yourself. Dave Phillips has done, and …
01:30:26 |
Wed 21 Oct 2015
Ariana Kukors: Swim
In this conversation we learn from Ariana Kukors, who is a USA Olympic Swimmer, current American Record holder and former World Record holder in the 200-meter individual medley (long course). A 2-Tim…
01:38:09 |
Wed 14 Oct 2015
Luke Tyburski: Endurance Adventurer
Luke Tyburski has designed the past three years of his life to push the limits of what “we” think to be possible. He’s designed an event to test his mental and physical skills over the course of 12 d…
01:22:41 |
Wed 07 Oct 2015
Keith Power: High Performance
Imagine working to optimize the human performance strategies and outcomes for an entire nation’s elite sport efforts. It’s challenging enough to do so for an elite sport franchise, let alone an entir…
00:59:35 |
Wed 30 Sep 2015
Fik-Shun: Dance
Shownotes: 4:30: Reasoning behind not choreographing his dancing 7:15: Trusting your instincts and creating an organic experience for the audience 11:05: Why instincts are the necessary choices 15:20…
01:16:09 |
Wed 16 Sep 2015
Baggio Husidić: Soccer
Sport is a way to learn more about who we are — how we handle success, failure, pain, loss, friendships, challenges and opportunities. In this upcoming conversation, sport becomes the initial “handsh…
01:42:14 |
Wed 09 Sep 2015
Tom Osborne: Leadership
While in graduate school, a psychology professor asked the class to draw a line across the middle of the paper. He asked us to write down, above the line, three people that have helped shape who we a…
01:14:36 |
Wed 02 Sep 2015
Kai Kight: Violin
Some conversations will be with those who summit the pinnacle of their profession —or break molds attempting to scale untold peaks. In this conversation, I was fortunate to sit down with a contempora…
01:13:08 |
Wed 26 Aug 2015
Volleyball Great Karch Kiraly on Leadership, Passion, Risk
Volleyball legend and three-time Gold Medalist, Karch Kiraly joins the show to discuss his path to Finding Mastery. The ‘winningest’ player in the history of the sport, Karch Kiraly is considered the…
01:01:40 |
Wed 19 Aug 2015
Finding Mastery: Welcome
Dr. Michael Gervais is fascinated by the psychology of high performance, in rugged environments. Throughout the past 15 years, Michael has been in the trenches with some of the best performers in the…
00:19:03 |
Sat 01 Aug 2015
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