Michael Gervais
speaker
524 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 16 Jun
Michael Gervais’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Most people are not afraid of dying.
They're afraid of living poorly.
They're afraid of the regrets that they'll have.
No one wants to die.
Even the most forward-pushing people that operate in environments of consequence like Alex Honnold.
So Alex Honnold, I believe, is one of the most significant minds in all of sport right now.
Most recently, he scaled the Taipei building.
Prior to that, he scaled without ropes, without harnesses, El Capitan, 3,000 sheer feet of rock.
So all he's left with is his hands, his feet, and his head, and navigating a sheer cliff.
He is showing us what a full command of the mind is, and he is disciplined in how he uses his mind.
He's disciplined in how he builds his craft, and he's disciplined in how he uses and fundamentally organizes his life.
The reason it is so foundational for so many of us is because we are still operating under our biological dictate to survive, as opposed to the psychological ambition to go explore, to figure out what we're capable of.
What a fun introduction.
So I'm a work in progress too.
So like we're all, we're all trying to figure it out, Anthony, but all right.
So what led me to psychology is that I would go back to high school years.
I was a good little athlete and there was a difference for me between competition and free surfing.
Surfing was my sport of choice and I could do the thing when nobody was looking.
But then as soon as there were some stakes in the, you know, there was judges and there was,
people watching, I was not as good as I knew I was capable of.
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