Michael Gervais: State of Finding Mastery

Dr. Michael Gervais (0:04)

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. And what we're going to do right now is spend a little bit of time on, you know, just a state of the union or state of Finding Mastery. And the first thing is thank you for filling out the survey. And almost 200 people just with one simple little request and one podcast shared a lot of information.

And I'm going to share some of that information here. And then I'm also going to run through the exciting things that I think we're trying to build to come next. And then the third thing I want to do is take a first pass or maybe this is a second pass of some of the insights that beginning to pull together or understand. And this is just a placeholder for a mark in time in which this is what's making sense now. And I think that over the next three months, you know, six months, nine months, a year, this conversation will be a nice placeholder as a marker for how much we and I have come that I don't understand. So here's where we are now. And hopefully in a year's time from now, this will be wildly different. But OK, so the first thing over 200 people connected to the to the survey. Incredible. Here's a nice little fun tidbit about you guys, is that 60 percent indicated they were risk takers. Forty percent, by definition, indicated that they were more inclined to follow rules. So that's a little bit of the makeup of who's following. So we've got a little bit of that Yahoo go for it attitude, which is probably why you're more interested in some of the adventure or action sport type of conversations that we're having.

The second thing is that what we're going to do is we're going to take the the guests have been so kind and so thoughtful and so so insightful. And there's such a wealth of information that they are sharing with us that what we're going to do is we're going to take those insights, we're going to distill them down and we're going to have we're going to launch another smaller podcast called Minutes on Mastery. And the Minutes on Mastery, you can go learn more about it. It's going to launch right after this conversation. And if you go to iTunes and you search Minutes on Mastery, you'll find it. And essentially what that's going to do is every day you wake up and you're going to have just a quick little nugget three minutes or less that one of the guests has shared like a really applied practice or an insight that really grabs our attention. So hopefully, I mean, the idea is every day you can have a little bit of a touching on a regular basis from the thoughts or habits or ways that some of the people on the path of mastery think and or do. So hopefully you get excited about that. I know we are.

The second is we're really listening to you. And what came from that survey that you filled out is that there's a we asked like, what are the things that you would like more of? And right out of the gates was a community. And so the way that we would like to think about developing a community is twofold. One is can we capture a digital community and a place online that we can have further conversations?

And then can we actually later down the road do some meetups? And so the first part of the digital community is that if you go to findingmastery.net forward slash community, you can find us there. And this is meant for you guys to be a resource for each other, and you'll have questions and you'll want to connect with other people. This all came through in the survey. And the idea is sometimes we'll have answers, but most of the time you guys will have answers for each other. The ways that you're thinking about particular challenges or things, ways to solve some of the dilemmas that we all are facing about being parts of community that are straining and striving and looking for challenge. So hopefully that will set the form and then you guys take care of each other. And obviously, you know, you can share articles and videos, things that are just stimulating for you. And you think that other people in this community that we're that we're all connected to now is will be equally as of interest. OK, so here's a couple more things is that what you told us that you care most about from the people on the podcast are is mental training. The second thing is mental toughness and the third thing is fear of failure.