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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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · High Performance Psychologist: The #1 Fear Holding You Back From Your Full Potential · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

I don't look, it's hard.

Now I'm making a mistake publicly like that.

I just want to hide.

There's nowhere to go, but like, that's the hard part, Mike, help me out.

So there was this theme over and over and over again, that the great fear that they had just like me was looking stupid, looking bad, looking dumb, looking whatever.

And we're not alone in that, Anthony.

That's something that come to find out the brain is designed and primed for.

200 and 300,000 years ago, we needed to fit in.

That was safety.

So being accepted meant safety.

The brain hasn't changed that much.

Hence why we find ourselves so tribalistic right now, trying to fit in the right or the left or whatever it might be.

We're trying to figure out safety first and foremost.

So, you know, yeah.

Fear of people's opinions and

What is it?

It's this exhaustive attempt to interpret what others are thinking or might be thinking about us.

And really what we're trying to do is avoid negative evaluation.

We're trying to avoid rejection.

We're trying to gain acceptance.

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