The First Rule of Mastery - Stop Worrying about What People Think of You

Renowned high-performance psychologist Michael Gervais—Seattle Seahawks, Red Bull Stratos, Team USA—presents a guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential: our fear of people''s opinions (FOPO).

With the proliferation of social media, the intense pressure to succeed, and our overreliance on external rewards, metrics, and validation, FOPO is running rampant. Our concern with what other people think about us has become an irrational, unproductive, and unhealthy obsession in the modern world. And its negative effects reach into all aspects of our lives.

In The First Rule of Mastery, Michael Gervais shows us the key to leading a high-performance life is to redirect our attention from the world outside us to the world inside us. As one of the world''s leading experts on the relationship between the mind and human performance, Gervais takes an in-depth look at the noxious effects of FOPO while laying out the men