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Sports Motivation Podcast

The Film Room: Michael Jordan Mindset, Pt. 1 “Mental Alchemy”

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Soccer, Football, Basketball, Crossfit, Mindset, Sports, Psychology, Dominate, Business

4.8755 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the FILM ROOM! This month’s series features the legendary, Michael Jordan. Part one is focused on what Robert Greene refers to as one’s “Mental Alchemy”. Tune in to MJ’s strategy towards trash-talk, negativity, competition, as he transforms them into successes. Sometimes you gotta play tricks on your own mind to see unbelievable results.


Time Stamps:

(4:00) A prelude to today’s Film Room episode: My gift to you

(6:39) The JORDAN series…

(7:57) Jordan’s “Mental Alchemy”

(9:05) A passage from Marcus Aurelius’, “Meditations”

(11:19) Clip #1: FAILURE

(12:43) Clip #2: Trick yourself to find an edge.

(13:31) A few excerpts from MJ’s book, “Driven From Within”

(18:28) Clip #3: Trash-talk with Reggie Miller

(21:28) Clip #4: News reporters

(22:43) Clip #5: Game to game challenges

(24:33) Clip #6: Tony Kukoc on lockdown

(27:59) Clip #7: Leroy Smith

(28:48) Clip #8: Van Gundy

(29:07) Clip #9: Don’t hurt MJ’s feelings.

(30:35) Clip #10: Doug Collins

(34:44) We all have the power…

(35:26) Self-reflection questions

(38:03) See you Monday for Part 2!

 

RESOURCES:

Check out today's blog post here: imnotyou.com/187

Click the link to Get Ya Mind Right! ---> Imnotyou.com/GYMR

Thanks for listening to another Sports Motivation Podcast!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the film room, the intense value-packed series where I, your host, Niyishob,

0:07.1

break down the mindset of the world's most dominant athletes, and I highlight for you,

0:12.7

their G-code, which is their belief system.

0:15.8

And I show you how you can practically and systematically apply these same beliefs to your own game so you can

0:21.6

blow the top off your current potential. Now we've been taught to believe that the world's elite,

0:27.5

they're special, right? They're wired different. And our fate, our fate is predetermined.

0:33.2

I call BS. The Omnayu philosophy is that it's your duty. It's your duty. It's your job to set

0:39.7

an incredibly high standard for yourself and a vision for yourself. And that it's your job also

0:45.1

to create and build the beliefs that lead you to take the appropriate actions and ultimately

0:51.8

secure the results that you want. And when you do that, amazing things happen

0:57.5

and we tend to prove the impossible. And this is what the athletes that we admire, that we watch

1:02.5

on television. This is what they've done. The Kobe's, the Jordans, the Ali's, the Mayweathers,

1:07.7

the Phelps. I want to show you how they think so you can do the same thing.

1:13.9

You can think the same things and ultimately take your game to new levels.

1:18.7

All right?

1:19.2

So like always, listen closely, take notes and of course take action.

1:24.5

Welcome to the film room.

1:26.5

Thank you. action. Welcome to the film room. The topic of today's film room is none other than Michael Jordan.

1:47.0

Jordan on the drive, right in the lane, 18-foot-er, yeah!

1:53.0

Yeah!

1:54.0

Look at the air, look at the hang time, look at the flying motion.

1:58.0

Time winding down, Michael for three.

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