Michael Mervosh
15 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 10, 2018 by Michael Mervosh · said 8 times in 6 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Sep 10, 2018 neutral
Mervosh: Psychological maturity requires adapting to reality, not forcing change
“The heroic task is facing what is, and not trying to change what is. That's called a tyrant. Phillip Shepherd writes about that in his books, you know, new self, new world, radical wholeness. No, that's a tyrant. Tyrants trying to change the world around them …”
Sep 10, 2018
Mervosh: Vocational calls arise from recognizing what is missing or undeveloped
“Well, call always comes when something's missing. You know, you have to be deprived of something. Something has to be absent or undeveloped, and the part of you that's awake and aware knows it. That part of you knows something's missing.”
Sep 10, 2018 neutral
Mervosh: People who ignore their wounds compensate by becoming saviors
“If you're not in touch with your wound, and your deficit, or your flaw, and you don't know that it's in you, and active in you, because you've disidentified with it, and you say, I don't want to go there anymore, and you haven't genuinely had people go there w…”
Sep 10, 2018
Apr 27, 2020 positive
Mervosh: Shared Activities Eliminate the Fatigue of Forced Banter
“When you're with somebody that you're not well acquainted with, you feel like you have to keep a banter going, and it's tiresome. The space is similar to like a jigsaw puzzle where you have the activity allowing everyone to relax and just be there.”
Apr 27, 2020
Mervosh: Focus on Developing Your Deficits, Not Polishing Your Strengths
“The awkwardness of something that where we feel incapable, or where we feel unwilling to go, like, that is definitely the areas where it has your greatest potential for development. Our strong suits don't need more work. And that's how we got out of balance be…”
Apr 27, 2020 positive
Mervosh's Three-Outreach Framework to Rebuild Connections During a Crisis
“If you were listening to this and you would like to just lean into something differently, make three phone calls or three outreaches. The first call will be to reach out and talk to someone that you haven't talked to in a long time and get over yourself. Oh, I…”
Apr 27, 2020 positive
Mervosh: Video Screens Act Like Confessionals for Honest Conversations
“And then I've noticed it's kind of like a confessional From the Catholic perspective here in the Easter week, where when you're in a confessional and you don't go face to face, you feel freer to say what's really, you open up differently. The barrier is actual…”
Aug 26, 2024 neutral
Mervosh: True currency derives value from exchange rather than accumulation
“Any kind of valuable currency is the ability to exchange it, not to collect it. When we have a lively, a life-giving exchange, it holds value to the two of us, and when we turn it into a thing, when we objectify a currency, it becomes this static thing.”
Aug 26, 2024 negative
Mervosh: 'Ask and you shall receive' is a fairy tale for children
“Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened to you. Oh man, that's a fairy tale for children. Ask. First of all, ask. Ask what? And ask when you really need help. How hard it is to ask, number one. When you ask, you do…”
Aug 26, 2024
Aug 26, 2024 negative
Mervosh: Hierarchical patriarchal leadership is a fallacy masking personal inadequacy
“There is no I on high on this hierarchical patriarchal fallacy. And I know it's a fallacy because I know some of these eyes on high in this world pretty well to know who's really the wizard. Over here, and with some massive projection of some talking head, sho…”
Aug 26, 2024 neutral
Aug 26, 2024
Mervosh: A calling always arises from deprivation and missing development
“Well, a call always comes when something's missing. You have to be deprived of something. Something has to be absent or undeveloped, and the part of you that's awake and aware knows it. That part of you knows something's missing.”
Aug 26, 2024
Mervosh: True heroism requires adapting oneself rather than forcing external change
“The heroic task is facing what is, and not trying to change what is. That's called a tyrant. Tyrants trying to change the world around them to suit them. It's also called the infant. And rather, we have to change ourselves in relation to what is, and adapt our…”