Michael Gervais | The First Rule of Mastery | Talks at Google

Author and high-performance psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais discusses his book "The First Rule Of Mastery: Stop Worrying About What People Think Of You," a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential: our fear of people’s opinions (FOPO).
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Michael Gervais, PhD, is one of the world's top high-performance psychologists. His clients include world record holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed artists and musicians, MVPs from every major sport and Fortune 100 CEOs. He is also the founder of Finding Mastery, a high-performance psychology consulting agency, the host of the Finding Mastery podcast, and the co-creator of the Performance Science Institute at the University of Southern California.
Moderated by Mike Abrams.

[@KhamPisethOfficial]

This is one of my favorite talks. I love it.

[@BrettRandell]

Love this talk!

[@bernard3690]

1st and only rule of mastery : practice practice practice.

[@alfredoistic]

Wow thanks so much amazing conversation, so true we are so addicted to performance, I have similar experience related with that (as content creator) thank you so much , cheers from Toronto ❤🙏🏼

[@eddieheron1939]

Why does Everything American these days have to involve someone being SO Excited, SO Happy or other expression, perhaps linked to the now reduced reference to ‘Awesome’? It’s most notable from UK, where we’ll tend to reply “not too bad” to any “how are you” or similar, but y’all are bouncing off that ceiling of extreme exaggerations, where it’s clearly now impossible to identify anything that might genuinely be regarded as ‘above average’!

[@sunnyeume]

As a russian, it’s very noticeable for me too. Not judging, just can’t not notice that it’s very different from me. Another thing is (possibly mostly between women/theys/gays) they often use “cry/tears” as a tool of indicating genuine emotions. Using “I’m crying” when they like something, or hate something. I was baffled, because even when life is hard, I cry maybe once a year and it has to be something serious and negative. But my American friends seem using crying way too often. Maybe multiple times a day? I probably will always seem soulless among them, cause I can’t give out that extreme range of emotions even if I try hard.

[@eddieheron1939]

@@sunnyeume Think the best you can do is keep on being your ‘Real World Self’, like I’m sure all of us non US citizens have always been. They are also very Christianity orientated, with literally Zero Atheist US Poloticians, which is statistically virtually impossible, but non dare ‘come out’ - a Sure Vote Loser!