How To Perform Under Pressure—With Both Peace and Confidence | Jim Murphy

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

A performance coach and bestselling author shares practical tools for thriving in crisis, shaving down the ego, and designing the life you want.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Murphy is a Performance Coach to some of the best athletes and leaders in the world. In addition to coaching professional athletes and executives, Murphy is the president of the Inner Excellence Freedom Project whose mission is to build communities to alleviate spiritual and physical poverty around the world.

In this episode we talk about:

A counterintuitive secret to performing under pressure
How to "relanguage" the story you tell about yourself
A crucial life question that everyone should be asking themselves
Practical tools for "inner excellence"
Jim's Four Daily Goals
Cultivating non-attachment to results
How to be less afraid of fear
The "expect nothing" rule
And the role of faith in his life

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0:00.0	This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:08.0	Hello everybody. How we doing? As somebody who once famously or infamously had a panic attack while delivering the news in front of 5 million people,
0:27.3	I am deeply intrigued by the question of whether it is possible to perform with both peace and confidence while under massive pressure.
0:37.4	That is the driving question behind the work
0:40.5	of my guest today, Jim Murphy, who is perhaps best known for his book, Inner Excellence.
0:45.8	There's a really cool backstory here before January of this year. Very few people had heard of
0:52.1	Jim Murphy, or the concept of Inter Excellence, but then the star football player A.J. Brown went viral when he was caught on camera reading Jim's book on the sidelines of a nationally televised Philadelphia Eagles game, which immediately propelled the book to bestseller status. And as you will hear, it also radically changed
1:12.6	Jim Murphy's life, which at that moment was a little dicey. It's an amazing story, and you'll hear
1:18.0	Jim tell it. A little bit more about Jim before we dive in here. He is a performance coach to some of the
1:22.9	best athletes and leaders in the world. He began his career as a professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs.
1:29.5	Then he had some vision issues that ended his career.
1:32.4	He went on to become a coach.
1:33.6	He's worked with the Texas Rangers, the South African Olympic baseball team, and now
1:39.1	with individual clients all over the world.
1:42.0	In this conversation, we talk about counterintuitive secret to performing under pressure,
1:46.5	how to re-language the story that you tell about yourself, a crucial life question that
1:52.2	everybody should be asking, a set of practical tools for inner excellence, Jim's four daily
1:58.0	goals, cultivating non-attachment to results, harder than it sounds,
2:03.1	how to be less afraid of fear, the expect nothing rule, which landed particularly hard with me.
2:11.0	And we talk about the role of faith in Jim's life.
2:13.3	We don't talk a lot about Christianity and God on this show because I'm neither a practicing Christian nor a believer per se in God.
2:22.5	But I do value ideological diversity.
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