Javier Gómez, Champion Triathlete

Javier Gómez (0:00)

Your body can go much further than what you think. With the right work and with a lot of passion and a lot of effort, you might achieve things that you thought you wouldn't.

And you learn to deal with difficult situations. You learn to deal with pressure. You learn to be calm when things are tough or not going as planned because maybe you're not having a good day or whatever. So you learn to be patient and know that with effort and with work, you can achieve anything pretty much.

Michael Gervais (0:42)

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. And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn. Is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery to better understand the deep stuff, the good stuff. What are they searching for? What are they craving? What are they working to understand?

And that really is part of their psychological framework. And then we wanna understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft.

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And Javi is currently in the final stages of training for the Ironman World Championships, which will take place on October 13th in Kona, the legendary Kona, Hawaii triathlon. And so for those unfamiliar with an Ironman, it is grueling. It consists of a 2.4 mile swim, it's out in the ocean, 112 mile bike ride, and then to top it off, a marathon, 26.2 miles for a marathon run.