Michael Gervais
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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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Yeah, I think there's two identities that are, I think, most important to understand.
There's the performance-based identity, and then there is purpose-based identity.
And when you study the most powerful people on the planet, and I'm not saying this naively, I'm saying this, you know, some of the most powerful people are not benevolent and some powerful people are benevolent.
But when you study very powerful people, whether it's Gandhi or fill in the blanks, you know, whomever comes to your mind, they had a purpose.
They were clear about their purpose.
And what they did is they fundamentally lined their life up towards that purpose.
Now, when you deconstruct the science of purpose, there's three legs to that stool.
It matters uniquely to that person.
So I can't give you your purpose.
You have to say, this matters to me.
And then it's bigger than you.
So you can't solve it alone.
This is why narcissists have trouble oftentimes.
And then the third is that it's out in front of you.
So those are the three legs, according to research.
If you want to free yourself from this performance identity, which is like the encapsulation of you worrying about what people are thinking about your performance in life, how well you dress or how well you show up in respect.
The inoculation to that is become aware of it and then to line yourself up to how the greats do it.
What is my purpose in life?
And it sounds simple, but it's relatively rare for most people to examine that and then fundamentally commit to it.
This will be unsatisfying to you.
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