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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He it's called free soloing.
So all he's left with is his hands, his feet in his head and navigating a sheer cliff and anything above like, I don't know, 75 feet is pretty consequential, but he's 3000 feet up navigating without ropes again.
And the reason I think he's the most significant mind is because he is showing us what a full command of the mind is.
And he is disciplined in how he uses his mind.
He's disciplined in how he builds his craft.
And he's disciplined in how he uses and fundamentally organizes his body.
I'm sorry, his life.
So the question that you're asking, though, is about the biological piece.
And the reason it is so foundational for so many of us is because we are still operating under our biological dictate to survive, as opposed to the psychological ambition to go explore, to figure out what we're capable of.
And that's one of the reasons he's so special because he operates in environments of consequence, but does not consider himself a risk taker.
How about that?
Yeah.
I mean, I think the question is like, why are we doing it?
And I do think it's, I don't think we have to look too much further than the biological mandate for survival.
That's what your brain's job is supposed to do, scan the world and find all the dangers.
And again, 300,000 years ago, one of the most dangerous thing was not the warring tribe because you don't see them very often.
It wasn't the saber tooth or the hedgehog that was going to whatever.
It wasn't them, hedgehog.
I don't know why I said hedgehog.
It was not the animals or the tribe.
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