Jon Gordon: Storytelling

Dr. Michael Gervais (0:09)

Dr. Michael, welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I am Michael Gervais. And again, the idea behind these podcasts are to have conversations with people who are switched on, and they're just deeply connected to what they might not even consider, but we've come to recognize as the path of mastery. And the goal of conversation is to work to identify their psychological framework, which is how they see themselves and how they see or have come to understand how the world works, but also understand their robust and sturdy practices that have allowed them to come to understand their potential, to explore their potential, or even struggle with their potential. And so that's the craft development side. The first part is the psychology. The second part is the craft development, which in the craft development, there's three parts. We can train our mind, we can train our craft, and we can train our body. And so working to understand the sturdy and robust practices, we're not looking for tricks and tips and mini hacks, if you will, of how to get better. We're looking for the long play, the long game. And in essence, the hope is that we'll provide through these conversations, ways that we can all train our mind and our craft in a similar fashion to some of the world's exceptional performers.

And again, as a footnote, with a large asterisk next to it, the ultimate goal is to not follow the path of these men and women and not to do what they've done, but rather work to understand what they're searching for and for us to seek the same. I wanna 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 wanna 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 wanna 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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And this episode is with Jon Gordon. There's a lot of spiritual stuff in this early on. And so afterwards when Jon and I talked about our conversation, we both laughed like saying, okay, maybe give a little plug or reminder for people to stay with it because it does get moving to the spiritual side for an extended period of the conversation. And that's because that's the essence of his psychological framework. And it's a question I have a deep understand, it's a question and a path that is rich for my life. And I wanna understand it from as many different frameworks as I can to help calibrate and refine and discount and invite new ideas around the path.