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7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
25 Nov 2025
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People come to me, they don't come to me for small, small goals. They want to be world number one.
You hit the New York Times best seller list.
The book was five years of full-time writing and research, but I came out of that with a near mental breakdown. I had spent my life savings, $90,000 in debt.
I want to dive into this developing ourselves as a person and use this episode as a means to sort of teach people inner excellence and how they can perform under pressure and also live a life of more meaning.
What I've seen with people that are very talented is that exactly what you said. It's just next, next, next. Like, let's get another goal. Let's achieve something else. It's a dangerous trap. Inter-excellence is about expanding what you believe is possible. Everything is here to teach me and help me. It's all working for my good.
So we're going to go look for those moments when you're most uncomfortable.
Where does ego and sort of self-centeredness and self-confidence interact?
Confidence is super helpful, but there's something even more powerful than confidence, and that's...
I want to start with this book, Inner Excellence. So you wrote this book, you wanted to put together a manual on mental toughness and performance under pressure. And the first thing I highlighted in this book, it's not even on a page number, it's in the preface here, is the quality of your life is based on three elements.
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