Best Mindset for an Optimized Life
Dr. Michael Gervais: Be in the Present Moment and Practice That
1 min read · 8.7.2025
“What is the best mindset for an optimized life?
“Let’s say that the optimized life is joy and happiness, fulfillment, flourishing. Let’s say that that’s an optimized life. That you have slid into home base, the end of your life, you’ve really gone for it. You got some scars and bruises, like you are a bit worn because you’ve really gone for it in life and you understand peace and happiness and joy and what’s the mindset?
“Be here now. Be in the present moment. That is the entry way into that type of life.
“It is so hard to do because our mind wants to take us to other places about what are thinking about us or what if this happens or what if that happens and we’re kind of scarred by $@#% that’s gone wrong in the past and we carry that into this present moment and we’re playing this fake game of being okay.
“If you really want this life, you’ve got to be in the present moment and practice that, because that is difficult to do.
“The mindset is to commit to being fully here now. That is the mindset.”
Nothing Can Ever Change Us—If We Don’t Let It
“Nothing outside of us ever changes us. Nothing outside of us changes us.
“I mean that is a radically deep statement. Some folks who say you haven’t lived my life, you don’t know what my experience has been here like. I’ve had heavy trauma happen.
“And my response is, it’s the way you’ve made sense of that.
“It’s the way that you’ve experienced that.
“It’s either the limitation of your psychological framework or your ability to eloquently adjust to it and fold it in and grow from it.
“The handshake of adversity is met at the moment that we determine how we’re going to experience that moment. It’s awesome.”
References:
Dr. Michael Gervais. What is the Best Mindset for an Optimized Life? @michaelgervais. X Post. 17.10.2022
Dr. Michael Gervais. Nothing Can Ever Change Us—If We Don’t Let It. @michaelgervais. X Post. 8.9.2022
