The Mindful Athlete - What Michael Jordan Knew About Success
The Tai Lopez Show
Tai Lopez
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🗓️ 1 July 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Tai interviews psychologist George Mumford, adviser to all-star athletes Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and championship winning coach Phil Jackson.
Mumford is author of the book, "The Mindful Athlete", which you can purchase here - http://amzn.to/1FHWgp8
Hear the legendary stories and lessons learned from over twenty years experience working in professional sports.
They discuss everything from sports, mindfulness and how Tai can improve his ping pong skills :)
There's a ton of good information in this video you can take away and apply to your life.
A lot of what George Mumford talks about is stuff Tai wishes someone had told him when he was 18.
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| 0:00.0 | When you look at all of these people that you've worked with, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, |
| 0:14.9 | Phil Jackson, there's this saying, there's a famous Russian author that wrote, and I'm |
| 0:20.5 | going to butcher it, but he basically said, you know, all happy families are happy in |
| 0:26.2 | the same way, and all unhappy families are unhappy in different ways, meaning, you |
| 0:32.4 | know, to succeed, there's like a straight and narrow path. To fail, there's a million |
| 0:38.8 | ways this way. Do you think that's true? Do all these guys have common mindset? Obviously |
| 0:44.4 | you were a psychologist. You're a psychologist. So you're working with the brain. I don't |
| 0:49.0 | know if you're a psychiatrist. No, I'm not dispensing. I'm not dispensing. Although |
| 0:53.2 | some of these needs me. Yeah, yeah. The, yes, well, a straight and narrow path, the, you |
| 1:01.7 | know, based on the way the universe is, there's laws. Right. That, you know, and so if you |
| 1:07.6 | live in harmony with the way things are, with the way laws are, then you're probably going |
| 1:12.7 | to be on the right path. What do you, let's say today's your last day on Planet Earth, |
| 1:17.8 | and you don't even have time to write this book. Right. It's a great book. Right. The mind |
| 1:21.5 | fly athlete, but you only have to do leave one or maybe two of those laws that get you in |
| 1:31.4 | line with, you know, this universal success formula. What do you think? One, and number one, |
| 1:36.6 | or number two is be here now and be yourself. Be here and now and be yourself. The present |
| 1:43.3 | moment, be in the present moment and, and just be yourself or, or how do I want to say |
| 1:48.9 | that? Just be happy. What's up? What's the story? You haven't told many people on |
| 1:59.7 | Kobe or Jordan or Phil. I know some of the stuff you're obviously have some confidentiality |
| 2:04.7 | about. Right. Any good stories you could share? People love to hear about that. What's your |
| 2:10.8 | favorite Kobe Bryant story? It's interesting because he and I just had this conversation |
| 2:15.9 | in January when I came out to LA to visit him. And I said, Kobe, do you remember when |
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