Day 5 – From Roommates to Rivals: The Olympian Balancing Act | The Game Inside The Games

Dr. Lisa Miller, clinical psychologist, professor at Columbia University, and author of The Awakened Brain, joins Dr. Michael Gervais to share the science behind our innate capacity for spirituality, why a strong personal spirituality is one of the strongest protective factors for mental health known to the clinical sciences, and how every one of us can strengthen it.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, molecular biologist, professor emeritus of medicine, and founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), returns to Finding Mastery for a conversation with Dr. Michael Gervais about presence, performance, and why mindfulness may be the most underrated human skill of our time.

Mark Manson, bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked, returns to Finding Mastery for a conversation with Dr. Michael Gervais about how to think clearly when nothing feels true, why sincerity has become the rarest signal of our moment, and the three principles Mark uses to navigate it all: radical ownership, radical honesty, and radical acceptance.

Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology and one of the world’s leading researchers on happiness, joins Dr. Michael Gervais to share what 36 years of studying happiness finally taught her: the key isn’t being loved. It’s feeling loved. A timely, science-backed look at why so many of us are surrounded by love and still don’t feel it, and the small shift that can change almost every relationship you have.

Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators, returns to Finding Mastery for another conversation with Dr. Michael Gervais. A timely, science-backed look at why so many of our conversations break down, and the small shift in attention that changes almost every relationship you have.