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Pivot With Purpose — How To Navigate Life Transitions | Apolo Ohno

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

CHAPTER

The Dangers of Externalizing Your Personal Compass

I think at points of my career, we talk about mastery a lot, right? When I exhibited the best parts or the closest to mastery I could get was when my internal compass was aligned with the external affirmations. So that type of externalizing a sense of who you are and how you're doing life is dangerous. And there's a calibration experience there that would be awesome. Left in an unsophisticated way, that is problematic.

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