Jim Murphy

It's coming from that anxious mind, that self one.

And for me, when you can start to ground yourself in yourself and just be like i am okay i don't care i i am okay with how i come across i'm okay with how i am what will be will be and i'm just going to let it unfold because i know i'm doing the best i can i'm doing the right thing for me this feels right this feels natural to me i'm being me and it's not without it's kind of without ego again I've spoken about it before, but Jim Murphy talks about an inner excellence, manage your ego through being unembarrassable, unoffendable and unirritable.

So right now, I don't feel like I'm going to embarrass myself.

I don't feel like I'm going to offend, anything's going to offend me or irritate me.

Well, great topic, Eric.

I'm excited to talk about it, but we need to finish up Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy.

We're on Chapter 11, which is called Maslow, Michael Jordan, and the Navy Seals, Three Hallmarks of Extraordinary Leaders.

So, Eric, what's your overall impression of the book, Ben, now that we're wrapping it up?

Imagine that.

Well, my guest, Jim Murphy, is the author of the book that went viral last fall.

It's called Inner Excellence, and he believes that that life is possible for you, for me, for everybody.

So let me explain first who Jim Murphy is, in case you haven't heard of Jim.

Hi, Jim.

Hi, Oprah.

When an eye condition ended Jim Murphy's lifelong dream of playing professional baseball, he moved to the desert to write and research Inner Excellence.

He spent five years studying the science of peak performance, interviewing sports psychologists and elite coaches.

And presence is like a cheat code.

Belief is I can do things, Jim Murphy can do things, Peter can do things, that's belief.

But presence, if you're fully present, there's no fear, there's no attachment, there's no past or future concern.

And when you're fully present, there's a whole range of things that are possible that you may not even believe are possible.

I really wasn't talking about business principles as much as I was talking about, you know, philosophy and mental state.

And like for instance, in, in, um, Jim Murphy's book, uh, he talks about, um, the critic, you know, that judgmental inner voice that questions your abilities and your decisions.

The monkey mind, which is a restless stream of thoughts that lead to analysis and over, you know, and distraction, right? And then, um, and then the trickster.

And the trickster is a deceptive voice that leads and creates that limiting belief and justifies procrastination and convinces you to stay in your, your comfort zone.

It seemed to go over well.

But this is a concept that we learned from many, you know...

I mean, Jim Murphy, I don't know if you've read Inner Excellence, but if you didn't, I would read it.

It's amazing, right? It's talking about mental strength and capability.