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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Maybe it's shooting a basket or maybe it's coding.
Whatever the skill might be, you got something.
But we say we value it, but we don't teach it.
I was never taught the basic mental skills to navigate a highly agitating world around me, you know, to be calm and confident.
I had to go, unfortunately, study to learn it.
But the world is changing.
I'm excited about how the best in the world are saying, you know, I need more help on this part of my life.
And then I think, Anthony, you'll appreciate this.
I did talk about this in the book, but
Beethoven.
Beethoven is, he's like punk rock.
You know, he is like, he was such a disruptor.
As brilliant of a performer and an artist as he was, he suffered from FOPO too.
He was going deaf, if you remember.
And it wasn't until he wrestled with that deafness
And he allowed people to know that somebody as quote-unquote perfect as him, that's how he described himself, could have such a malady to lose his hearing.
that it wasn't until he really wrestled with it did he come back and do Symphony No.
5.
One of the great songs ever, right?
So the point of this is even the greatest of the greatest that stand up historically over time, until they wrestle with authentically who they are and the conditions that they have, do they even become close to knowing what they're capable of?
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