7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
The Knowledge Project
Shane Parrish
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | People come to me. They don't come to me for small, small goals. They want to be world number one. |
| 0:04.4 | You hit the New York Times best of all I was. The book was five years of full-time writing and research, |
| 0:08.3 | but I came out of that with the near mental breakdown. I spent my life savings, $90,000 in debt. |
| 0:14.2 | I want to dive into this developing ourselves as a person and use this episode as a means to sort |
| 0:20.7 | of teach people innerance and how they can |
| 0:23.0 | perform under pressure and also live the life of more meaning. What I've seen with people that are |
| 0:27.6 | very talented is that exactly what you said is just next, next, next, next, like let's get another |
| 0:33.2 | goal to us to achieve something else. It's a dangerous trap. Inter-excellence is about expanding what you believe is possible. |
| 0:39.8 | Everything is here to teach me and help me. |
| 0:41.2 | It's all working for my good. |
| 0:42.6 | So we're going to go look for those moments when you're most uncomfortable. |
| 0:45.5 | Where does ego and sort of self-centeredness and self-confidence interact? |
| 0:50.8 | Confidence is super helpful. |
| 0:52.3 | But there's something even more powerful than confidence, |
| 0:55.2 | and that's... I want to start with this book, Inner Excellence. So you wrote this book, |
| 1:06.2 | you wanted to put together a manual on mental toughness and performance under pressure. And the first thing I |
| 1:13.5 | highlighted in this book, it's not even on a page number, it's in the preface here, is the quality of |
| 1:19.0 | your life is based on three elements, your inner world of thoughts and feelings, beliefs, and |
| 1:24.5 | desires, your frame of reference mindset from which you see the world |
| 1:29.1 | and your relationships. How did you hit on that? Well, I mean, the book was five years of |
| 1:35.0 | full-time writing and research. And so that is a very holistic approach. And I think that's |
| 1:39.8 | what you need. If you want human optimization, we need to be holistic. We need to get deeper than just the mind. |
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