Dr. Michael Gervais

The world right now is saying we're more anxious, more depressed, more addicted, more loneliness than we've seen in our lifetime, at least.

If you want to live in a way where you have buoyancy and joy and happiness and a fire in your belly, then you need to train the skills.

And those skills are psychological skills.

When we study the greats, they are not trying, for the most part, to be the best.

They are trying to be their best.

The mastery of self is really when you understand who you are and how you work.

And it is really about...

Fear of people's opinions, we believe, according to our research, is the greatest constrictor of somebody's potential.

This is not not caring about other people's opinions, okay?

This is about the excessive worry.

Now, the thing about this, Hala, is that...

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So thank you again.

The concept of mastery has not evolved.

Let me just reground, but the world around us has.

I think that that's one of the really important characteristics of the nature of mastery, is that there's a timelessness to the idea.

I and others, I think, are really happy to upgrade when the timing is called for, but so far it still holds true.

Just to reground though, there's mastery of self and mastery of craft.

And it really is about the path of becoming one's very best and moving toward the ability to artistically express yourself, whether it's on canvas or in Word or whatever it might be, to artistically express yourself on demand, independent of the conditions around you.

And so that's mastery of craft.