You Don't Rise to the Moment. You Fall to Training | Dr. Michael Gervais

Do you feel like there's too much pressure going on in your life right now? Like the responsibilities are piling up and you feel like you might be just at the point of burning out? Well, today's guest is a sports psychologist who's worked with some of the top Olympic athletes and he's giving us science-backed tools on how to deal with pressure at the highest level. I'm so excited for you to check this out. So let's go ahead and dive in.

I was working with a UFC fighter. He was aware that he would tighten up before he goes into the cage. I said, okay, when you're working to be at your best, like what's happening inside of you? He looked at me and he's like, oh, I'm a tough. I said, well, I don't know, can you back that up?

And he says, um, yeah. When I was 14, I whipped my dad's ass. What we can all learn from that is like for every epic thought that you want to say to yourself, what are three experiences in your life that give you the right to say that? One of the world's top high performance psychologists and leading experts experts on the relationship between the mind and human performance is also the co-creator of the Performance Science Institute, Dr.

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