You Don't Rise To Moments, You Fall To Your Training | Dr. Michael Gervais

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12Dr. Michael Gervais:What is less talked about or even researched is post-traumatic growth. So what you're asking about is like, if you had an option, which we all have options based on our experiences and our psychology, we determine the experience, not the experience in and of itself. Yes. So for much of my life, I have been framing things in a way like, OK, how do I grow from this? How do I benefit from this? How do I frame this in a way that helps me and others grow? So this was another moment that fit well with the model that I've already invested in for the last 30 years. Yeah, but now you're the brain scientist who's doing open brain surgery and saying, okay, do these theories actually work after this?

0:56Dr. Michael Gervais:Well, I think that's the point, Lewis, is that take any smaller setback or challenge or adversity or whatever, or any kind of mundane life experience. Like, how do I take one more rep at the gym? Yes. Right. How do I stay in a hard conversation just a little bit longer? So it's these small little moments that just add up where you respond based on your training. Humans, this is a first principle for me. And this is, I don't know, somewhat controversial, I think, is that humans fall to the level of their training. We don't rise to moments. And I know you might think differently about that because I think I've heard you say we rise to the occasion, but I can't remember.

1:35I think I agree with you. You rise to the level of your training. Yeah.

1:39Dr. Michael Gervais:I agree with that. Yeah. And so when it comes to psychological training, your entire community right now has a training module, has a training way. And it's like the way that they're framing this conversation, the way they framed the cold eggs that they ate. So we're always training something. And being aware of how we are framing and navigating our psychology is really important. So the whole thing begins with awareness and without awareness of how you're working with your thoughts and emotions and feelings without awareness. I don't think you have a fighting chance to be anywhere close to what you're capable of.

2:18Dr. Michael Gervais:And so it does begin with awareness. We're always training ourselves, you know, one direction or not. And so it showed up right. And so I'm super grateful. That's good. What would you say? I'm just curious. You work a lot with elite athletes, peak performers of the world's population. What would you say is the percentage of people that are living a peak performance life? You know, it falls under a normal bell distribution, a normal curve. You know, there's the half percenters that are wildly known, world recognized. And then there's the 5 % and the 10%, the 15%, kind of that upper quadral, if you will.

2:56And it's no different than in any population, any endeavor.

3:04Dr. Michael Gervais:Like there's a half percenters in basketball. There's a half percenters in handball. There's a half percenters in music. Most people fall within one or two standard deviations of the mean. 84 % to be exact, right in that number of people are kind of similar in the way they approach life. And that's what the average looks like. 84%. 84%. Yeah. or what i would say are what we would call right humming around the average so people that fundamentally commit their lives towards any aim and the word is fundamentally commit have a chance of knowing how good or extraordinary they can be in any endeavor and if your endeavor is handball you have to fundamentally commit if your endeavor is joy and happiness purpose-driven yeah you know community-minded whatever it might be so the word though the phrase is fundamentally commit most people don't even come close to fundamentally organizing their life around what matters most wow they don't make a decision of what matters most that's right and they don't go all the way in on that yeah and that fundamental decision is dangerous there's a danger line to sort out.

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