Jeremy Bailenson, Founder of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Bailenson is the founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and a professor at Stanford University.

Jeremy studies the psychology of Virtual Reality (VR), in particular how virtual experiences lead to changes in perceptions of self and others.

When I was up at his lab, he ran me through a fear-inducing protocol that completely hijacked my thinking brain. Right up my alley!

In this conversation we discuss Jeremy’s path – why he was almost too early to VR over 20 years ago - and how he dealt with early rejection because of it.

Jeremy shares how he prevailed to run a lab at Stanford that is leading the way for technological advancements in virtual reality.

He is also the co-founder of STRIVR, a company that has integrated virtual reality into the way sports teams train their players.

This is a thought provoking discussion – Jeremy was able to see the future before many of his peers and was able to do the work to carve that path.

For those that are intrigued by the applications of VR, check out his new book, Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do.

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0:00.0	When I showed David Shaw the coach of Stanford, I've been doing VR for 20 years and when I showed it to Shaw, normally people come to my lab, they say, oh, I can see that's going to be good someday. I can see how that's going to show up.
0:10.0	Shaw put it on his head, he looked at it for 30 seconds, he put it on his head he looked at it for 30 seconds he put it down and he said two
0:15.5	things to me said when can you put that in the football office and what can I do to
0:20.1	get you not to give that to the rest of the pack 12. And I've never gotten that response and there's such
0:25.0	fulfillment out of building something that somebody wants to use. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I am Michael Jervay, and by training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist and the idea behind these
0:46.8	conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery to better
0:51.5	understand what's driving them.
0:54.2	What are they searching for?
0:55.3	What are they most hungry to experience and understand in their life?
0:58.9	And why are they working so ridiculously hard
1:01.6	to become the very best or their very best.
1:04.7	And in these conversations,
1:06.0	we're trying to sort out their psychological framework.
1:08.4	We're trying to understand the mental skills
1:10.2	that they've used to also build and refine their craft.
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