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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So it makes perfect sense that from a young age, we start to figure out who we are is really how well we're able to do something.
That is why public speaking is one of the great dangers and great fears in the Western world is because it's all about how you perform, as opposed to an environment that is more purpose-based.
And a purpose is like it's something far greater than you.
It's not a reflection of you.
It's that you're contributing to something in a meaningful way.
And all of the greats, all of the historical greats, and I'm not talking about the high performers in the NBA or NFL, I'm talking about the real changers across the planet that have made a difference.
most of them are purpose-based, that they are fundamentally committed to a purpose larger than them.
Think about Mother Teresa, Mandela, Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, Dr. King.
Keep going down the list and you'll say, hmm, I see the common thread there.
Cornell professor Thomas Gilovich and his colleagues, they devised a social experiment, and this was back in early 2000s.
And it was to see whether people are really observing and judging us at every turn.
And so what he did is he gathered 100 college students and he entered them and just kind of put them in a room.
And then he had...
a handful of folks that he gave in a separate room, these really ugly t-shirts.
And it was a photo of the pop singer Barry Manilow that was on the front of it.
And the students that were wearing that Barry Manilow shirt were like, oh God, you want me to walk in there with this?
And yes.
And then they just went through a series of experimental questions saying, how many people do you think in the room of your friends, the room of a hundred people are going to notice?
And then they asked the people in the room, like, how many of you actually noticed what the shirt was that the person that walked in the room was?
Come to find out is that we overpredict how many people pay attention to what we're actually wearing and doing and thinking by the order of about 50%.
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