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    The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance
    The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance
    The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance
    Audiobook4 hours

    The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

    Written by George Mumford and Phil Jackson

    Narrated by JD Jackson

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    About this audiobook

    Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless other NBA players turn around their games. A widely respected public speaker and coach, Mumford is sharing his own story and the strategies that have made these athletes into stars in The Mindful Athlete: The Secret to Pure Performance. His proven, gentle but groundbreaking mindfulness techniques can transform the performance of anyone with a goal, be they an Olympian, weekend warrior, executive, hacker, or artist.

    Mumford’s deeply moving personal story is unforgettable. A basketball player at the University of Massachusetts (where he roomed with Dr. J, Julius Erving), injuries forced Mumford out of the game he loved. The meds that relieved the pain of his injuries also numbed him to the emptiness he felt without the game and eventually led him to heroin. After years as a functioning addict, Mumford enrolled in Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program, and made meditation, on and off the cushion, the center of his life. He kicked drugs, earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology and began teaching meditation to inmates and others.

    When Michael Jordan left the Chicago Bulls to play baseball in 1993, the team was in crisis. Coach Phil Jackson, a long-time mindfulness practitioner, contacted Dr. Kabat-Zinn to find someone who could teach mindfulness techniques to the struggling team—someone who would have credibility and could speak the language of his players. Kabat-Zinn led Jackson to Mumford and their partnership began. Mumford has worked with Jackson and each of the eleven teams he coached to become NBA champions. His roster of champion clients has since blossomed way beyond basketball to include corporate executives, Olympians, and athletes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 15, 2016
    ISBN9781511364577
    The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance
    Author

    George Mumford

    George Mumford is a psychologist and elite performance expert who has worked with athletes like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. He is the author of the groundbreaking The Mindful Athlete, has consulted with high school, college, and Olympic athletes, inmates, and corporate executives, and is a sought-after public speaker at both business and athletic conferences, nationally and internationally.

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    • 5/5
      Life changing stuff. Knowledge that can be applied to every moment of one's life. Remember friends be here now.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Best book about sport and mindfulness! Contains lots and lots of wisdom!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very good and motivated book for athletes and anyone else who struggles.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Enjoyed the concepts and quotes. Performance is a mental game, especially when you want to be excellent. appreciate his perspective and willingness to share his own story

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Reader had a great voice. Direct suggestions that are immediately applicable to real life.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed the presented idea and thoughts about mindfulness in the realm of sports. I wish the book was longer though to include some more concrete excercises.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I really liked the approach and how well studied the author it’s on the subject. Quoting great books such as the men in search of meaning and Joseph Campbell “Power of myth”.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Brilliant book! Practical, insightful and filled with nuggets of wisdom. Thanks George Mumford for sharing your journey.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great listen. Will definitely listen to it again in the future.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Immediate life changing and very easily digestible. Highly recommend this to anyone.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent book. Good insight on how to live in the moment

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      No need to write a 7 hour book, one hour lecture would have been enough.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      The book covered mindfulness as a necessary foundation for peak performance in sport an in life. Not the best written book but definitely worthwhile for someone looking for guidance to understand and improve mindfulness, enhance performance using five super powers (faith, diligence, mindfulness, concentration, and insight) , living in the present moment, and focusing on the journey and not the destination.
    • 5/5
      It was amazing do more I really learned a lot from this book
    • 3/5
      Some interesting topics, but not enough to keep me fully immersed. Found myself losing interest quite often.
    • 5/5
      Great book, insightful about mindfulness and how to incorporate it in physical performance. I recommend it to anyone practicing any kind of sport as in a hobby or professionally, learning how to be present and to enjoy the movement is the key.
    • 5/5
      Great book. I loved it so much. It is full with a lot of interesting informations that worth a lot.