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If you鈥檙e a top-tier professional athlete trying to train your brain, you鈥檙e likely going to turn to Dr. Michael Gervais.
If you鈥檙e a top-tier professional athlete trying to train your brain, you鈥檙e likely going to turn to Dr. Michael Gervais. (Photo: Courtesy of Michael Gervais)
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Dr. Michael Gervais on Mental Mastery

If you鈥檙e a top-tier professional athlete trying to train your brain, you鈥檙e likely going to turn to Dr. Michael Gervais.

For most athletes, achieving peak performance means training hard, eating right, and maybe some stretching. But when you get to the elite level, where everyone鈥檚 doing that, it鈥檚 the mental game that makes winners and losers. How hard can you push your body? How much pain can you tolerate? How can you avoid getting psyched out before a big event?聽 If you鈥檙e a top-tier professional athlete trying to train your brain, you鈥檙e likely going to turn to Michael Gervais, a renowned expert in high-performance psychology. His clients include the Seattle Seahawks, various Olympians, and Felix Baumgartner, that guy who jumped to earth from the edge of space. In this second installment of our four-part look at the science of performance,聽黑料吃瓜网 editor Christopher Keyes sits down with Dr. Gervais to ask what advice he has for the rest of us.

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