Overcoming the Uncertainty of 2020 | Rich Roll

Rich Roll (0:00)

If you're stuck, if you're struggling, if you're being dismantled, if you feel like your life is getting pulled out from underneath you, I say, congratulations. Like, what a fucking opportunity that is.

You are being given an opportunity to look at yourself and reconstruct your life from the ground up. Not everybody gets that opportunity, like lean into it. Our instinct is to shun it or avoid it or pretend it's not there. But the truth is, there's this incredible gift if you move towards it.

Michael Gervais (0:35)

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. I trade and training. I'm a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create.

Now, the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these conversations, is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery.

Now, we're much more interested in that blending between mastery of self and mastery of craft. And we also want to dig to understand what is the tension between those two? What are the specific and unique ways that they're going at building their craft? But more importantly, how are they mastering the inner life? How do they organize their thinking? How do they organize their inner life? To pursue the very best of themselves. And that usually involves something about purpose. It usually involves something about dealing with uncertainty. And also, like, how do they manage when things don't go according to plan? That's all about the inner life. That's about the psychological skills to be able to pivot and adjust.

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