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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So something changed overnight.
Something changed.
And I was in a heat competing.
The person I was competing next to paddled by me.
There's only three people out.
It's like seven in the morning, glassy conditions, head high waves, ideal conditions.
And he paddles by me and we're about mid heat.
And he says, Gervais, I'm out here surfing with you every day.
You got to stop worrying about all the things that could go wrong.
And I thought, how does he know?
This is me as like a 16 year old kid.
How does he know?
And he didn't, like a good competitor, he didn't give me the answer, right?
But he left me thinking, oh, this is about the way I'm thinking, right?
Now, Anthony, in my family, in my unique niche sport, in my region of the world I was in, Southern California, a young 16-year-old boy in the 80s did not go to a psychologist.
That was for someone that didn't have their stuff together that was kind of a mess, that was depressed or anxious or something worse.
That was the narrative.
And it was a sign of weakness.
So thank goodness we're in a different world right now where the best in the world are raising their hand and they're saying, hey, listen, the mental part of the game is the foundation of the whole thing.
You want to be great in life?
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