Exploring Our Limited Understanding of Reality | Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra (0:00)

Every morning, I set four intentions.

Joyful energetic body, loving compassionate heart, reflective, quiet, alert mind, and lightness of being. And then I ask those four intentions to guide my choices for the day.

That's it. And then I also decide that I'm going to cultivate stillness. If you have the right intention, and you want to know answers to very simple questions, then ask the question, who am I? What do I want? What's my purpose? What am I grateful for? Leave the question, don't worry about the answer. Thank you.

Michael Gervais (0:49)

All right, welcome back, or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I am Michael Gervais, and by trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. I just gotta say that I love our community. I love what we're doing. I love the honesty of what we're trying to sort out and figure out, and just how real that we are using what we're learning, the vulnerabilities, to be able to express what we don't understand, and then taking the actions to be able to put them in play. And the whole idea behind this conversation, behind this podcast, is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery, either mastery of self or mastery of craft or potentially both. And we want to dig to understand, what is the narrative that they hold, that they've grown? What is the psychological framework that they've built? How do they explain events in their lives? And how do they explain who they are? What is their purpose? What are they searching for? What's underneath the search? And then obviously we're going to dig and understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.

I want to take a minute here to announce a really exciting event that we have coming up. As you continue to navigate the challenges and opportunities of 2024, I want to pose a question. What are you doing right now to be great with stress? How are you working with stress on your pursuit towards your most important ambitions and goals? And I just want to get right to the heart of the key elements, one in particular, for what it takes to excel in today's high heat, high stakes world. Because stress is not the problem that we think it is. Stress is a synonym for change. And our ability to be agile with change, that is the real opportunity at hand. So if you're wanting to unlock extraordinary results and sustainable performance in your life, it's not about avoiding or reducing stress. And as simple as that sounds, it's very tricky to do, but it is about fundamentally changing your relationship with it.

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