A USA Today Bestseller High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking
guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential: our fear
of people's opinions (FOPO). FOPO shows up almost everywhere in our lives-and the consequences
are great. When we let FOPO take control we play it safe and small because we're afraid of
what will happen on the other side of critique. When challenged we surrender our viewpoint. We
trade in authenticity for approval. We please rather than provoke. We chase the dreams of
others rather than our own. But it doesn't have to be this way. In The First Rule of Mastery
Michael Gervais shows us that the key to leading a high-performance life is to redirect our
attention from the world outside us to the world inside us. He reveals the mental skills and
practices we need to overcome FOPO-the same skills he's taught to the top performers in the
world including sports MVPs world-renowned artists and musicians and Fortune 100 leaders and
teams. Filled with fascinating stories from the worlds of sports and business leading-edge
science and insights from the frontier of human performance The First Rule of Mastery is a
much-needed wake-up call that when we give more value to other people's opinions than we do our
own we live life on their terms not ours.
