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George Mumford

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
390 total appearances

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Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

But also my authenticity and talking about, well, this cat used to be a dope fiend, man. He was in the shooting gallery. Now he's behind the bench of his NBA championship team during the championship run. How the hell does that happen? How do you get from there to there? You see what I'm saying? So a lot of it is because I have not made one free throw before. one turnover or one assist.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

But also my authenticity and talking about, well, this cat used to be a dope fiend, man. He was in the shooting gallery. Now he's behind the bench of his NBA championship team during the championship run. How the hell does that happen? How do you get from there to there? You see what I'm saying? So a lot of it is because I have not made one free throw before. one turnover or one assist.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

But also my authenticity and talking about, well, this cat used to be a dope fiend, man. He was in the shooting gallery. Now he's behind the bench of his NBA championship team during the championship run. How the hell does that happen? How do you get from there to there? You see what I'm saying? So a lot of it is because I have not made one free throw before. one turnover or one assist.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

My job is just to help people be who they are. So I just chip away and, you know, like Michelangelo, you know, when they asked him, how does he create these works of art? And he said, all I do is chip away to get to the masterpiece that's already there. So that's what I do. I ain't fixing anybody.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

My job is just to help people be who they are. So I just chip away and, you know, like Michelangelo, you know, when they asked him, how does he create these works of art? And he said, all I do is chip away to get to the masterpiece that's already there. So that's what I do. I ain't fixing anybody.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

My job is just to help people be who they are. So I just chip away and, you know, like Michelangelo, you know, when they asked him, how does he create these works of art? And he said, all I do is chip away to get to the masterpiece that's already there. So that's what I do. I ain't fixing anybody.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

I'm just helping people unlock, helping people understand, hey, you know, what you need to succeed is inside, is an inside job. And if you go in there and you access it and you express it, and share it with the rest of us, that's the bomb. That now we're into something. And so that's what I do. And some people, they get it. And they're looking for that edge. They're not waiting for something.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

I'm just helping people unlock, helping people understand, hey, you know, what you need to succeed is inside, is an inside job. And if you go in there and you access it and you express it, and share it with the rest of us, that's the bomb. That now we're into something. And so that's what I do. And some people, they get it. And they're looking for that edge. They're not waiting for something.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

I'm just helping people unlock, helping people understand, hey, you know, what you need to succeed is inside, is an inside job. And if you go in there and you access it and you express it, and share it with the rest of us, that's the bomb. That now we're into something. And so that's what I do. And some people, they get it. And they're looking for that edge. They're not waiting for something.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

They're proactive. They're saying, okay, I'm doing this, but I got to get better. And so case in point, when Kobe, after Kobe won a championship, maybe it was, it might've been 2009. I don't know what year it was, 2009. But during the off season, he's down in, Houston working on his post game with the large one. Now he just won a championship, but that was a thing magic the same way. Okay.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

They're proactive. They're saying, okay, I'm doing this, but I got to get better. And so case in point, when Kobe, after Kobe won a championship, maybe it was, it might've been 2009. I don't know what year it was, 2009. But during the off season, he's down in, Houston working on his post game with the large one. Now he just won a championship, but that was a thing magic the same way. Okay.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

They're proactive. They're saying, okay, I'm doing this, but I got to get better. And so case in point, when Kobe, after Kobe won a championship, maybe it was, it might've been 2009. I don't know what year it was, 2009. But during the off season, he's down in, Houston working on his post game with the large one. Now he just won a championship, but that was a thing magic the same way. Okay.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

I know bird is working hard. I got to work hard. Dr. J I ruined him, man. He's always working on his craft. And so you see what I'm saying, but it's not work. So you couldn't tell a difference between practice and the real game. Cause every time they get on the court, they were, their job was to get better. And this is what I tell my clients. I tell people,

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

I know bird is working hard. I got to work hard. Dr. J I ruined him, man. He's always working on his craft. And so you see what I'm saying, but it's not work. So you couldn't tell a difference between practice and the real game. Cause every time they get on the court, they were, their job was to get better. And this is what I tell my clients. I tell people,

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

I know bird is working hard. I got to work hard. Dr. J I ruined him, man. He's always working on his craft. And so you see what I'm saying, but it's not work. So you couldn't tell a difference between practice and the real game. Cause every time they get on the court, they were, their job was to get better. And this is what I tell my clients. I tell people,

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

you don't have to get a whole lot better. You can get a little bit better 1% each day, each day, each day. You want to be able to finish practice or the game and say, I got better today. I made progress today. And so these guys already knew that. All I was doing is just helping them say, okay, here's what you can do. And they just took what I got and just ran with it.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

you don't have to get a whole lot better. You can get a little bit better 1% each day, each day, each day. You want to be able to finish practice or the game and say, I got better today. I made progress today. And so these guys already knew that. All I was doing is just helping them say, okay, here's what you can do. And they just took what I got and just ran with it.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

you don't have to get a whole lot better. You can get a little bit better 1% each day, each day, each day. You want to be able to finish practice or the game and say, I got better today. I made progress today. And so these guys already knew that. All I was doing is just helping them say, okay, here's what you can do. And they just took what I got and just ran with it.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

And I used to say to people all the time, I'm not disrespecting anybody, but I said, MJ was the kind of dude that You know, there's killer instinct and people talk about it. You know, you have Magic Bird and all I'm talking about, even with the dream team, dude just has this, you know, this energizing enthusiasm or energy. His energy is off the charts. His focus is off the chart.

Mick Unplugged
George Mumford Discusses Pure Performance, The Zone, and Lessons from Champions

And I used to say to people all the time, I'm not disrespecting anybody, but I said, MJ was the kind of dude that You know, there's killer instinct and people talk about it. You know, you have Magic Bird and all I'm talking about, even with the dream team, dude just has this, you know, this energizing enthusiasm or energy. His energy is off the charts. His focus is off the chart.