John Brenkus, Producer, Director, TV Personality

John Brenkus (0:00)

What I feel like one of my strengths is, is making something out of nothing. So that oasis that I see down there, is actually, it's actually there.

The tree is there.

The water is there. I just need to keep running after it. And when you feel like you're never gonna get there, I'm like, I'm so stubborn, and I'm so, I believe in myself, I believe in my cause, I believe in, I'll get there. I don't know how long it's gonna take me. I don't know how many twists and turns, but I'm gonna, that water exists.

Dr. Michael Gervais (0:46)

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. And I'd love for you to go check out some of the work that we're doing over there. It's been a blast. And the whole idea behind the conversations in this podcast is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery, to better understand what they're searching for, what they ache for, what they're craving. We wanna understand how they're making sense of their world, events in the world themselves and people.

And we also wanna understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft.

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Now this week's conversation is with John Brenkus. And you've probably heard his name if you're in the sport world. He spent the last decade plus studying and popularizing the unique characteristics of the world's greatest athletes. So behind the scenes where you might not know his work, he's the co-founder of Bass Productions, but he's best known for his on air host and co-creator of the ESPN Emmy award winning show called Sports Science. And he's appeared and produced in over 1500 segments.