NBA Superstar on Meditation, Visualization and Speed Reading - Reggie Jackson
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🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ever wondered what the mindset of a high-achieving athlete looks like?
There’s always a secret sauce to becoming one of the world’s most celebrated sporting stars. In today’s Mindvalley Podcast we’re joined by the legendary basketball player Reggie Jackson to shed some light on what it takes to shoot and score in basketball and in life.
Listen out for:
- Reggie’s daily routine for success and self-improvement.
- An athlete’s experience of lockdown and how to deal with it healthily.
- The science behind visualization and how to use it to achieve incredible athletic feats.
- The surprising technique Reggie used to heal from illness.
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| 0:00.0 | I want you to just describe how did you feel what was going through your head did you see yourself as a kid as a teenager |
| 0:07.6 | Getting to where you got I just always know I want to play basketball. So I think I did a great amount of daydreaming and time really putting myself in the shoes of being an |
| 0:16.5 | MBA and just trying to experience every feeling of it. Did my best to try to mentally make up the idea of getting to the NBA. |
| 0:23.4 | Everything else kind of just followed once I kind of seen it in my mind, you know, it was very |
| 0:27.1 | tangible and I could feel it. It was a journey that became easier to go down. |
| 0:31.0 | I am Mission Lachiani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation. |
| 0:36.0 | You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers |
| 0:39.6 | and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth |
| 0:44.6 | for mind, body, spirit, and work. |
| 0:47.8 | Hi everyone and welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast. Today's guest is |
| 0:52.3 | none other than Reggie Jackson of the L.A. Clippers. |
| 0:56.3 | So Reggie had reached out to me a couple of months ago and it turned out that his coach had introduced |
| 1:01.8 | him to the Six-phase meditation, the meditation that I |
| 1:04.6 | invented and popularized through Mind Valley. And Reggie, just like many other sports |
| 1:08.4 | stars, had been using the six-face meditation to improve his performance. And so I got on the call with him. He came on |
| 1:15.0 | on Instagram live and we had the most incredible conversation on how this young man, |
| 1:22.0 | so when Reggie was 25 years old he was offered an 80 million dollar |
| 1:27.2 | five-year contract for the Detroit Pistons he played the Detroit Pistons and then transitioned to the LA Clippers. |
| 1:35.1 | That is an amazing accomplishment for a 25 year old. |
| 1:38.0 | Man, and I wanted to find out what was this process? |
| 1:41.2 | So many people dream of being a spot star but what did Reggie do different? What did he visualize? How did he meditate? What was his life |
| 1:47.8 | philosophy? How did he integrate mind value in the six-phase meditation into his lifestyle. |
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