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Michael Gervais

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  1. “And what was happening on the sideline before that is that we were ahead of time, the sidelines, not the men out here, but the sidelines were ahead of time. So we think about music. If you think about music, Music is beautiful when it's on time. Even if there's some dissonance, right? But when it's on time ahead of time is that syncopation creates chaos. So we were on the sidelines because we weren't in the game ahead of time. Oh my God, we're winning the game. This is it. And then all of a sudden, we thought it was ours. Now I'm speaking about me, really, right? I was ahead of time. And a ball's intercepted, game's done, that team storms the field, blew and was it blue and silver ticker tape is coming down. And the sidelines was ours was like stunned. The emotions in the locker room afterwards.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “And Bill Pelichek brings in his men to stop the run game. And the coaches are like, because we brought in a particular unit that was just a beautiful play. And it was a pass play. And so you could see the, I could see the coaches go, that's the matchup you want. That's the exact matchup. Because there's another thing about this matchup is that the Seattle Seahawks are like 20% from running from the goal line. As a general rule, we want to put people and organizations in positions of strength, not roll the dice on positions of weakness, right? So being 20% from the goal line, those aren't great odds. So they're matching up for the run. Here we are trying to get to a pass play. And the ball's intercepted. and game's over.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “It was on the half yard line. And it was a roller coaster of third and fourth quarter. And Tom Brady on the other side and that team, they did a phenomenal job. They did a phenomenal job. And they're skilled, very skilled. So here it is on the half-yard line. The entire stadium. Thought the ball was going to go to our running back, exceptional running back Marsha on lunch, and Bill Belichick. Mind you, the intensity of trying to sort out what the next play is while the clock's going down, while there's an emotional stimulation that's taking place is not an easy thing to do. That's a very complicated thing. When the environment is losing their mind to be clear about what the options are”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “If you and I are having this conversation and you're checking your phone, I'll be dramatic. You're checking your phone. You're looking at your watch. You're checking to see if we're okay. You're checking out because this is not interesting. Then I'm going to be like after this. This sucks. Okay, so that's one level of it that happens every day, all day long, every airport that I'm in, that's what's happening. Deeper than that, is if I or she is saying something and they're trying to see if they can go for it and I'm missing it, people all the time will tell you who they are. Just have to listen. You have to be really present with them to hear the essence of what they're trying to communicate underneath the A. And so that's kind of how relationships work.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Because they're just words. And so it's the emotional thing that's the hardest for us. And so if we can hold presence, this is the gift to give another person. If we can hold presence when another person is rattling and they're a wreck, you're there for them in a really cool way. But if you can't go deep enough to be able to hold true and to be authentic with them, then they don't trust you. They come up. They take care of themselves and the work is not real.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “And it's relentless and it's hard and it's difficult. And so back to this experience is that. You know, when I reshape how we think about failure, it really is about Oh no, let me, I think I finished that. But when we talk about the emotional piece is that if we can hold Our ability to be authentically ourselves when it's difficult. And that's only emotional. Like we use physical whatever to get to the emotional. There's no mental difficultiness. There's no such thing.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Talk about the real stuff. So here's the full circle of the conversation. Before I finish that story is that I don't think about failure that way though. Failure is not making a mistake. That's not failure. Failure is not being authentic. Failure is not going for it. Failure is being small. Whether you win or not, if you're authentically you and you go for it, okay, it sounds easy. It sounds like you could put that on a fortune cookie, but that's really what it's about. So when you play it safe and small and you're not authentically yourself, it's your whole day. Is failing your whole month, your whole year. And so I don't think about it like that's a win, that's a loss. That's a failure. That's a mistake. That's good. That's bad. It's like the experience is a day-to-day orientation to try to pivot grow.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Okay, so the first one that comes to mind. Rename nameless for sure, but it was an entertainer that I just couldn't quite reach. And it was hard and it was deep and it was rich. And she made it. She survived, but I wasn't able to kind of do what I had hoped we would do. And so it's those kind of haunting experiences. That one's not haunting, but I knew that I can't connect in the way. I can't access the depth and the richness that I need to go to. Because I have limitations of what I was able to do at that time.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “And maybe somebody loses limbs or life or something which makes it real because this bubble that we live in is problematic for the next generation.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “Right. Yeah, so our generation right now is, every one of them grew up with instant access to whatever and everyone's buckled in and safety harnesses from the beginnings of their life. And we don't have a real appreciation for danger. So we pompously walk around with a soft underbelly thinking that we understand what's true and real and beautiful and hard and honest. And so it's the rugged and hostile environments that teach us. And they teach us by leveraging real fear. And we say that we conquer fear. We say that we'll do things, but not until you're squarely facing it down. Does the risk of putting yourself in that situation provide insight? But that class would be too dangerous for modern times. And so, yeah, like there would be stuff that would possibly people would get hurt, which would make it real.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “If I could create a class that was mandatory for incoming freshmen or whatever. It would be dangerous. And it would for sure we are raising children that are, I don't know how old you are, but I'm sure you grew up probably kind of with a seatbelt. But not always, maybe.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “No. Yeah, school was the assistant principal, the dean of my high school pulled my then-girlfriend, now wife. Cool story, pulled her aside and said, what is a nice girl like you dating Gervais? So kind of heavy in school, the way that that went down. That was an indication that I was not on the right path and I didn't have a structure to really help me get the right path. And so I learned a lot the hard way. And I had no idea that there was even this profession about being able to give back through understanding how the mind works. And so that's how my journey began”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “Figuring out how to do today at the best way I possibly could as a six year old and a 16 year old. No one in my family went to college. I didn't know anyone that went to college. And if they did, they didn't talk about it. And I certainly didn't know anyone that had a graduate degree.”

    2017-08-02 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #256: How to Overcome Anxiety and Stress - with Adviser to Olympians, Michael Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT