Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais High-performance psychologist. Host of Finding Mastery Podcast. Co-founder, Compete to Create.

03/09/2026

Life is for big emotions. If you do not know how to work with your emotions, it’s a hard life.

Let me just kind of ground emotions from feelings. Separate those two things for a minute.

Emotions are the physiological experiences that are observable, that you can see in another person. You can measure emotions.

Feelings are subjective. It’s the way that you are interpreting or making sense of that physiological experience.

When you are angry, there will be a tension. There will be a skin color difference.

There might be a sweat that comes on board. That also might be fear. That also might be excitement.

So the way you’re interpreting those physiological observable experiences are feelings.

Check out the full AMA conversation with .momentous CEO Jeff Byers title “5 Mental Battles High Performers Don’t Talk About” wherever you get your podcasts.

03/09/2026

Here are 4 simple steps to start you start your day the right way.

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1. Take a breath

Before you tune to the outside world. Tune to the inside world.

One breath. Send a signal to your brain and to the circuitry of your brain that you’re in control of the show.

2. Thought of gratitude

This is a way for you to hold space to wake up a particular circuitry in the brain that is not threat detection, but is optimization.

Once we start going through the day, most of our brain circuitry is designed to find the dangers and mitigate them.

If we can start our day training a different part of our brain, which is like what’s good, it sets us up for a whole different way to experience life later.

3. Be intentional

Close your eyes and just imagine specific times in the day on how you want to show up, how you want to be.

What’s my intention for today?

4. Be present

Take your sheets off and flip over to the side of your bed, stand up, or just kind of be in that position for a moment and just be where your body is. That’s it. Be present.

One breath, one gratitude, one intention, be present.

03/06/2026

I failed psychology in high school.

I share that with you because I didn’t have my purpose lined up. I was really struggling.

Purpose, according to science, rests on three things.

1. It has to personally matter to you.
2. It has to be bigger than you.
3. It has to be out in front of you

Those are the three legs of purpose. And when you get that dialed in, the rest seems pretty easy.

From the latest episode of with .momentous CEO Jeff Byers.

03/05/2026

Basics done consistently and done well, are what compound over time — and nutrition is no different.

The goal isn’t a quick fix. It’s consistency. So happy for the great work Momentous has done.

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03/03/2026

Living with passion is a psychological skill.

The idea: if I could just find the thing I was passionate about, that one thing, I’d be okay.

I think we’ve got to flip that around. It’s knowing how to live with passion in everything you do.

Think about how dangerous it is if you can only find that buoyancy and excitement in one or two things.

You need to have that thing to be alive. Very dangerous way to go through life.

What if you could bring passion into every environment you’re in?

That is possible. Living with passion is a psychological skill. It’s not a dependency.

03/02/2026

Timeless lesson: Do gratitude work.

When you do gratitude work, see if you can fully be flooded with the emotions of the thing that you’re really grateful for.

For me this morning, it was my eyes. It’s quite simple.

But when you really get underneath of it, just to be so grateful for a part of your body, a person that you’re connected to, you have $5 in your pocket, whatever it might be, it changes you.

What are you grateful for? 👇🏼

03/02/2026

The miracle question.

If a miracle happened tonight and everything you’re hoping for would be different in the morning, what is the miracle?

What would the beautiful life be tomorrow morning when you woke up?

This is a grounded question in a well-researched psychological intervention.

What’s your miracle? 👇🏼

“She is breaking a barrier,” says sports psychologist Michael Gervais, who has worked with athletes across four Olympics...
02/23/2026

“She is breaking a barrier,” says sports psychologist Michael Gervais, who has worked with athletes across four Olympics. “She is teaching us all in real time what it means to work from the inside out.”

Grateful for the feature in 🔥

02/23/2026

Noise is the outcome. Signal is the inputs.

Signal is what’s completely available in the present moment, honest and true.

Present moment is where high performance is expressed, where wisdom is revealed, where amazing things are experienced.

Signal is always in the present moment.

-Noise is all the things that could happen, have happened, might happen.
-Noise is other people’s opinions.
-Noise is when plans aren’t going how you hoped. You grasp, hold on, tighten up.
-Noise is obsession with winning, with being on top, with being better than others.

The fundamental question is: Are you trying to be the best or be your best?

If we’re not honest, we’re chasing outcomes that give us relief.

02/20/2026

The 3 way to live a great life.

1. Vision

Use imagination to imagine a compelling future, what you or others or a community could become.

Clarity of vision to see the future you want to work toward.

A vision where people are flourishing, where people are better.

2. Goals.

What goals are 100% under your control?

When you figure that out, an internal unlock takes place.

3. Purpose.

Know your purpose. What are you doing here? With your life?

What are you working so hard for? What’s the reason the vision matters, the goals are important?

Getting those three lined up is part of the unlock to live with passion.

02/17/2026

First 40 minutes of the day are really important.

Wake up, before you even get out of your sheets, do something small that sparks that circuitry.

Gratitude or optimism training.

Mental imagery to see you being great later in the afternoon.

Three things with a couple breaths, 90 seconds of training.

Super simple, mechanical. Great chance to start.

How do you start your day? 👇🏼

02/14/2026

40 to 45 percent of first-time marriages end in divorce.

People want to be in good relationships, made a promise to each other. What gets in the way?

Speed and demands of life are fast, stress is high, our response mechanism to stresses are unfit.

World-class athletes invest in recovery practices to meet demands with excellence and grace. The rest of us don’t.

We give what we have.

This alarming number rests on psychological abilities.

To be in any relationship, invest in yourself so you have something of quality to give.

This Valentine’s Day, are you being the best partner you can be? ❤️

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