Tim Ryan: Congress, Mindfulness, and Real Food

Michael Gervais (0:09)

All right, welcome back, or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais, and the idea behind this podcast is to have a conversation with people who are on the path of mastery, and who have a point of view around mastery. And so far, we've had literally some of the best in the world, from soccer players to explorers to world record holding Olympians, ultra distance runners, football coaches, football players, researchers, bestselling authors, members of special forces, both SEALs and Green Beret. And we've been able to learn from a whole swath of people that have been giving enough to share how they have become experts and how they've moved beyond expertise. 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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Our political landscape right now seems to be a mess. And we're in one of those classic choice cycles. And we all now have choices to make, whether we're going to participate or not, whether we're going to support candidates that inspire or candidates that degrade others and the system. And it seems to me that all the candidates that I'm learning from and trying to understand where they're coming from and their plan to move us from where we are now to something better then, that they're struggling here. And I can't imagine what it's like to have every word monitored and critiqued, and which is what's happening for them right now.

However, our ability to choose words and thoughts are foundational to reflecting our psychological framework. And if we're not careful, we will become experts in finding flaws versus finding mastery.

And if our political structure is led by those that struggle to find mastery and the path towards it, I get concerned. Like I think that many people voice that concern. And there's so many things that are broken and wrong and that are not optimized across this amazing, robust and matrixed and dynamic country of America that it's easy to stir up the anxiousness around what is broken and what's not working and the frustrations that come with that, rather than saying, okay, listen, I understand where we're coming from. Here's where the idea of where we're going.