The Explorer's Guide to Self-Discovery | 7x World Champ, Rebecca Rusch

Rebecca Rusch (0:00)

I need that because when I push myself really hard physically, that is my teacher. That is where I learn about myself. It's where I understand what's next. It's where I solve all of my problems, whether it's a bike ride here in my backyard, or the really deep philosophical questions of why am I here? What am I doing? What is this world about?

That happens for me in places where I'm physically at my limit.

Michael Gervais (0:36)

All right, welcome back. Or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais, and by trade and training, I am a sport and performance psychologist. And I am fortunate to work with some of the most extraordinary thinkers and doers across the planet. And the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these conversations, is to learn from them, is to pull back the curtain, to better understand how they've committed, fundamentally committed their life efforts towards mastering both their craft and their minds.

And as you know, your mind, our minds are our greatest asset. We need to train them though.

And if you want to learn more about how you can train your mind, this is just a quick little flag, a little reminder right here to check out the online psychological training course that I built, where literally we pulled together the best practices to meet that unique intersection of high performance psychology and wellbeing. And, you know, we just walk through mechanically the 16 essential principles and how you can train those skills and principles to be your very best, just like we train world-class athletes. You can find all of that at findingmastery.net forward slash course.

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