#164 Dr Michael Gervais - Performance Psychologist, Host of 'Finding Mastery' Podcast and Co-founder of Compete to Create

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Today we spoke with Dr Michael Gervais - Performance Psychologist, Host of 'Finding Mastery' Podcast and Co-founder of Compete to Create. As a licensed psychologist and industry visionary, Dr. Gervais has focused most of his time on people at the "top of their game", from the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and NBA players, to Olympians, military personnel and corporate leaders. Spending years in the trenches of high-stakes circumstances, Dr. Gervais has developed clarity for the tools that allow people to "thrive under pressure". He is a published, peer-reviewed author and an internationally recognised speaker on issues related to high performance for those who excel on the largest stages in the world. Compete to Create is a mindset and culture accelerant company with the mission of helping people find their best. The course, Co-founded by Coach Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks and Michael, focuses on mindset skills to help people become their very best. Michael often talks about how we can train our body, our craft, our mind; we are currently undertaking his 'Founding your Best' online course, and find it fantastic! Today we start with the origins of Michael's surname, the culinary delights in his household, and learn about Michael's time in Ireland. We dig into why alignment makes more sense for Michael, rather than balance for high performers, personal philosophy, values, his feelings about legacy -and what is lighting up the dragon in Michael. He asked us our definition of high performance, which was fun. Every day is an opportunity to create a living masterpiece, as he says! Exclusive for listeners of the show - Dr. Michael Gervais is giving away two places on his online course Finding Your Best on CompetetoCreate.net. To enter head over to Instagram or Twitter How to enter: Follow @michaelgervais, @findingmastery, and @sleepeatperformrepeat. Like the contest post. Tag 3 other people in a comment on this post. Finding Your Best is a true masterclass for your mind. In this online course curated by high-performance psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais and NFL head coach Pete Carroll, you will learn how to craft your own personal philosophy, set a vision, and apply the skills of confidence, optimism, calm, and mindfulness in your everyday life - as well as 12 other essential mindset principles. Key Timestamps: (0:45) - Origins of name 'Gervais' (3:01) - Learning from the land in a small town (4:53) - Teaching from alignment in elite sport + business (5:58) - Optimising our thoughts, words, action (7:39) - Power of clarity and being on tv in unfolding preset mount (11. 08) - Allocating appropriate internal resources to challenge (14:33) - Michael's decision-making framework (16:45) - How do the extraordinary's do it (17:30) - Framing pain and regret (19:22) - Freeing yourself from the inner circle of regret, shame, and guilt (21:15) - Philosophy and learning your first Principles (21:58) - Those who live with conviction are our heroes (22:40) - Taking your thoughts from the invisible to visible (25:10) - Organise our world to run to the edges of complicated high-pressure opportunities (26:28) - When Michael is at his best (28:08) - Finding your inner dragon and dragon fire (29:58) - How a tired world is asking for help in finding mastery (30:38) - Making the right micro choices to capture the attention of people (32:08) - Commitment to focusing on what is happening not and what is important today (33:05) - The need to better understand our relationships with ourselves, others, and with machines (34:51) - What does high performance mean to you (37:46) - High Performance on the razor's edge of relative importance.