How To Increase Performance By Working At Your Edge -- Plus A Quick Hack For When Panic or Anxiety Swells

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, my fellow suffering beings. How are we doing today? What you're about to hear is a conversation between me and

and a high performance psychologist about a host of fascinating issues. What it's like to work at your edge, whether that's in meditation and managing panic disorder or in your professional life. Why love, broadly understood not just as romantic love, but why love might actually be the most important skill you can develop, how to stay engaged in these tumultuous political times without getting consumed by rage, and a concept called the ideal competitive mindset, or ICM, which I found extremely useful. What you're about to hear is me ostensibly being interviewed by my friend Dr.

Michael Gervais, who, as I mentioned a few moments ago, is a high performance psychologist, which means that he works with elite athletes and executives to perform at their best. He was ostensibly, as I said, interviewing me for his podcast, which is called Finding Mastery, but I, of course, because I can't help myself, asked him a bunch of questions as well. So it's much more of a conversation. A couple things to say before we dive in.

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