Dr. Michael Gervais

Whether it's entrepreneurs who are trying to figure out deal-making or trying to figure out how to maximize output, whatever it might be, that's just the excuse.

That's the agreed-upon pond that we're all swimming in.

And it is really about, do you have the internal capabilities to be at home with yourself wherever you are?

And that, again, is a different way of thinking about mastery of self.

Okay, so I said this the other day to a friend of mine, and he's a world-class singer.

When I say world-class, I mean world-class.

And so I said to him, wow, that is beautiful.

I wish that I could sing a tenth of the way that you sing.

I think I'm kind of tone deaf, and I just don't think I could ever get anywhere close to that.

Like, thank you.

And he reflexively pointed back to me and said, asked me a question.

He said, how often do you train singing?

I said, oh no, I really think I'm kind of tone deaf.

And he says, oh, that's really rare.

He says, but so how often do you train?

I said, no, I don't train.

He says, well, how would you expect to be good at it?

And I was like, fair point.

And I think the same holds up in my relationship to singing.

I had this idea that I could never sing like that.