Fighter Pilot: What It Takes to Perform Under Pressure | Commander Kristen Findlay
15 May 2024 - 1 hour 32 minsImagine what it takes to land an $80 million fighter jet on a moving target — in the middle of the ocean — at night.
The extreme precision, split-second timing, and unwavering focus required for such a feat are beyond the grasp of ordinary experience.
Our guest today, Commander Kristen Findlay (née Hansen), knows precisely what it takes to land an F/A-18 Super Hornet on an aircraft carrier – in rough seas and in the dark, where every decision can have monumental consequences.
Kristen is a distinguished Naval aviator whose career spans two decades of sustained high performance in military service. She’s accumulated over 2,700 hours of flight time, 66 combat sorties over Iraq, Afghanistan a...
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The Psychology Of Winning The Super Bowl | Seattle Seahawks Coach Mike Macdonald
Mike Macdonald, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks and the youngest head coach in modern NFL history to win a Super Bowl, joins Dr. Michael Gervais to share the principle at the center of his team’s culture: through, not around... they also dive into why confidence and self-efficacy are trainable skills, and what it takes to lead a locker room of world-class competitors.
1 hour 15 mins
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The Psychology Of Spirituality | Dr. Lisa Miller
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.
1 hour 1 min
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The Psychology of Awareness | Jon Kabat-Zinn
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.
1 hour 1 min
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The Psychology Of Not Giving A F*ck | Mark Manson
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.
48 mins
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The Psychology Of Feeling Loved | Dr Sonja Lyubomirsky
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.
1 hour 3 mins
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