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  1. “Share the focus on the solution. So, if we're going to criticize somebody, it's one thing to say. I don't like this. It's another thing to say it and then give them an option that's helpful.”

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  2. “Yes, my wish for everyone is for everyone to really understand they have a masterpiece in how to know ourselves so we can be ourselves, so we can express ourselves, so we can share ourselves. So the sharing is really important and just understanding that we have a masterpiece. And I have my book, I have my online course, I have my YouTube channel. And you have all sorts of resources. My hope is that we all understand that we have to take personal responsibility as an inner game. And if we don't like what we are experiencing, we can change it. But we have to be willing and also not letting blame or denial prevent us from taking responsibility and being able to.”

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  3. “Thank you. And these people like you give me an opportunity to share my experience, strength, and hope. And it's also wonderful because I know the impact you've been having on folks and continue to have. So I want to say ditto to you. But I'm just happy, man. I'm just happy that I can just be here and have this wonderful conversation about how do we live in a solution, not in a problem. How do we access the fact that we are already perfect whole and complete in terms of being a masterpiece or a divine spark? We just don't know it or we don't show it.”

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  4. “And so, when we can do that, now we generate, we stimulate these latent abilities. Oh, this is great. This is an opportunity to show up and to really be helpful. So that's what I'm excited about is it really doesn't matter what happens on some level. What matters is can I create space between stimulus and response and in that space can I be loving? Can I be compassionate? Can I be wise? I make wise choices and can I live according to what my core values are, love, compassion, connection, that sort of thing. And that no matter what happens, I need to train myself so I can keep showing up. But the good news is because I share, I give away what I have, I get more of it. And if I want to learn something, I teach it.”

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  5. “Yes, but at the same time, Hans Salier got the scientists that came up with the stress of life and the stress reaction and all of that is his belief, and it's also my belief that when the crisis or when this challenge, that's when our latent abilities express themselves. It's like seeing everything. So we know this, that how you can predict how somebody does in a job, three things, what they call positive genius or optimism and hope. Second thing is social support. And the third thing is seeing a crisis as a challenge.”

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  6. “Personally, I'm excited about the fact that I get to do what I was put here to do and be a service and just show up. I mean, this journey, a discovery where I have no idea what's going to happen with COVID and all the other things. My job is to, like I said, to show up and to be myself, which in my case is I want to be loving. I want to be compassionate, but I want to be helpful to show up be myself and have fun. It's like, okay, so I had to be like, why? So whatever is coming, can I embrace it and create a container to hold it and at the same time generate, okay, how can I relate to this in a way that inspires, motivates, moves is helpful?”

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  7. “You see what I'm saying? And I'm guarantee you, if you think about your experience or even the listeners, if you think about a time when you were able to just say, okay, this is what it is, what can I do? How can I relate to it? That's what it is. So awareness, acceptance, once you accept it, then you can do something about it. So you're not in denial or you're not blaming somebody. You're saying, okay, this is what it is. How can I do about it? So those four A's can apply. Anytime, anywhere.”

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  8. “And so I just went right into it. But I Can we embrace it and then generate the hope or say, okay, what can we do? What's the next plate? This is an opportunity for us to figure out what we need to do. And maybe if we don't know, well, just start with just sitting Just being present with what's going on. I had a friend of mine. His name is Bolozoff. He passed away, but he was doing a thing in prison. And he decided to bring the men and the women together. And when he did that, it was other chaos. And he was there. And you know what he did? He sat down and meditated right in the middle of them. He had no idea what the hell to do. So he said, I'm just going to sit and think about it. You know, see what happens. And they all looked at him and said, well, how could he do that”

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  9. “So, how did it go? It went great because I gave them what they could hear. I met them where they were, but the main thing was I wasn't rigid, I wasn't attached to my wanting to force something on them. I say, okay, they're not going to be able to hear this. So what can I do? How can I be of service?”

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  10. “It turned out great. They got something and I got something. And I realized that what it told me was, especially working in prison, you had no idea what the hell was going to happen. You could be doing a crap. And then the alarm goes off, and everybody gets locked out.”

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  11. “Awareness, the acceptance. Okay, what's the capacity of action? Okay, I got an interpreter. I got to make this shit real simple. I got to just give them the basic things. Breathe in, breathe out, whatever. You know, it's something about being in the present and what that looks like. And that's when all the notes went out the window. I just had to just be like what? Just okay, what is here? How can I work with it? I won't say surrender. I say embrace it and then generate the hope. What can I do? How can I still have to keep it simple? But I can just show up and do things. And so that applies. And then we can fast forward to you like stories. I'll give you another story”

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  12. “So I was working in this prison, Norfolk County House of Correction actually, the little tidbit is there. That's where Malcolm X did his time in that prison. I actually saw his jacket rugged. So I used to work there. And so I go in there to teach this meditation class. This meditation yoga class, but meditation class, and I have all these corpious notes. This is when I was really new and I was going to give them a sermon or a lecture or Dhamma talk, whatever you want to call it. It's going to be awesome. I got all these notes in there and everything. So, and this also goes into what Bruce Lee talks about, be like water. I go in there. And then when I get in the class, I realize that out of 32 students, 28 of them are Spanish speaking only”

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  13. “Now you got the same thing, so you're aware of your breathing, but there's this twisting, burning, and maybe it's anxiety and you have this tightness in your chest. And you're like this. So instead of avoiding that, you open to it, you focus on that and say, what is this? And can I open and can I just breathe and just let it be there? What's the sensation? Okay, it's tightness. But then at some point it's going to change. It's going to dissipate because I'm not fighting it. Then I can move on. So that's what I mean by the four A's.”

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  14. “Do wherever you are, but you have to be aware of it, you have to accept it. Yeah, it's happening. I suck as a meditator. That's all judgment. It's awareness without being critical or without judgment. And then or passionate action is just notice, okay, let's see what mind takes us. Because maybe the mind is telling us something and you focus on that, then you come back and then you notice that there's more ease. And so then your assessment of it is what worked, what didn't work. What did you change? So now you have that ability. So it could be a sound. It could be an ache in your body.”

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  15. “So that's where the awareness, the acceptance. But if I'm going through this every day for five days in a row, if it's not that it's something else that I'm struggling, I just can't stay on the object. What I'm going to do is say, I can't do this. This is not for me. I'm not able to do it. Instead of saying, no, it's just noticing what's happening. You're distracted. And instead of fighting it, just let it become your object of awareness as part of the process. And then when you do that, then you're going to get to this place of calm. Then you can let go and then you can just come back.”

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  16. “And then because all you're doing is taking this instead of being attached to this object, you just take whatever comes up. Okay, this is here. Let's just go with that. Notice the song. You just focus on that. And you will still get concentrated because you focus on one thing.”

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  17. “You do. Here's what I teach. So if this becomes so much A distraction instead of fighting it. Turn your attention towards it And that becomes the object. What is this? And so by not resisting it, by looking at it, then you know, what is it? What does it feel like? You know, this song, what does it feel like in my body? What is it? Why is it this song is staying there? Maybe there's something about Stop Me Up Jimi Hendrick. Who knows, or, you know, the power of love. It could be whatever it is. But then we look at it, but we just notice that it's just thinking. Instead of resisting it, we turn attention to it and we open it up. Okay, what is this? And you just let it be there, the acceptance. And then by doing that, you notice that you'll calm down.”

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  18. “Sitting, but your mind keeps thinking about let's do what happens to a lot of people. I'm listening to a song on the radio, like they say Stop Me Up by Mick Jag or whatever. And you heard it on the radio and you're in your meditation and they stop me up and it keeps going. And the more you try to avoid it, it keeps staying there. Then you go through the sitting and you say, well, the whole time I was struggling with this damn song, I couldn't get rid of it. The awareness is this song or this, it could be a thought pattern or whatever or could be something we're worried about, like somebody's sick and we're worried about how the operation went or something like that. So the instructions are when you get distracted, just go back to your breath or be with the body. But you spend all the time doing that, but it's a struggle. And it's hard to do it. The awareness of that, then the acceptance is, yeah, I couldn't do it. But then the compassion and action is, okay, so George, what do you?”

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  19. “You know that it was short. And then what's the compassionate action? Compassionate action is what? Okay. What do I need to do to fix it? I need to stick it. That's all I need to do is just follow through. Then the assessment afterwards is so there's awareness, acceptance, which is the big challenging thing. Action or compassionate action and assessment, what worked, what didn't work, and then go back to it. So if you practice meditation, you're sitting and you notice that”

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  20. “That's more extension through the wrist. Yeah. But it's really more like sticking it like this, like follow through. What he did was he made the adjustment. My shot is short. So to get it up, I have to. And stick it. So you see in real time him making an adjustment, but how does that work? So I talk about the four A's. So the four A's have to do with awareness. Kind of awareness that you could just notice this uncritical, it's mindfulness. You just notice like Merriman. You're aware of what happened. The acceptance of it, that's the challenging part because sometimes we say, oh man, you know, I just rushed it or whatever. You're not taking responsibility for it and saying, yeah, I don't like it. It sucks. It feels bad. But once I embrace and say, this is what happened. This is know the truth and truth shall make you free.”

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  21. “I would tell him that focus on self-observation, teaching them how to observe their experience in an uncritical way where they can start to see, okay, if I'm shooting free throws, I just talk about shooting free throws. When I go up and I shoot a free throw, I want to be able to observe what happened. You know, I missed a free throw. A lot of times people say, shoot, I missed a free throw. I want them to be able to say, okay, so I'm observing it. So, when I shot a free throw, what did I notice that was off? Did I use my feet? Did I keep my elbow in? Did I stick it? And it's just a matter of like, okay, so what do I need to change? Okay, I need to stick it next time. If you go back to Michael Jordan In 1998 against the Utah Jazz in the fourth quarter, he was shooting shots and they were short.”

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  22. “Same thing about the bows, you know, when they won 72 games. You know, they struggled, they go through it, then you take off. You chip away at it. But because slow motion gets you there quicker, it's like the tortoise in the hair, you just keep doing what's in front of you. You stay locked in. You stay enthusiastic. You do what you have to do. Then something happens. It happens a lot of the time. You just break out. You have a breakout because you're not just improving. You're looking. And these guys had a vision. So that team that was 27 and 5 that year we had what they call European trip. So we're in the gym in August before they go. And I'm hanging around. I'm listening. And the guys are saying, you know, we've been getting beat by 40 by all these teams. Any team that comes in here this year, we're going to beat them by 20.”

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  23. “Get a jump, so that happened with Troy, the team he was playing on Boston College Eagles, Al Skinny's team, who was my roommate from college. One year he was six and 21, six wins 21 losses. The next year, the team was 11 and 19. Out of those 19 losses, 12 losses came in a row when they lost in the last possession of the game. Next year, the same team, which you played 16 games in league. So big East, you play 16 games that first year where they were 11 and 19. They won three games and lost 13. The next year, they won 13 games and lost three. So they were 27 and 5. It kept going and then it just took off. I could say the same thing.”

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  24. “Was kind of okie doke. Then he came back in the senior year and he won Player the Year outright. And as a matter of fact, you saw where his game was going. He was increasing. And then it just took off. In January and the senior year, he just went to a whole other level with his play so much so that Sports Illustrator came and interviewed him. When they told me, he says, well, you know what work with George and, you know, just a mental game is all of that stuff that we were working on all of a sudden it just took off. In a linear perspective, you say one plus one equals two. But in a nonlinear right brain, if you're left right handed, one plus one equals six.”

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  25. “Of the athletes I've worked with at Boston College named Troy Bell. He's a point guard. I think he owes a record in BC for the most points scored. Troy as a sophomore, we were playing in the biggies. He got biggies player of the year. He was co-player of the year with Murphy from Notre Dame. His junior year...”

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  26. “It's good for the little prime, but to really break out, to really go beyond that, you have to just have courage initiative. It's nice I can hit singles all day on playing baseball, just get a single. But you want to be able to not only hit a single, but hit whatever the heck you want, hit home runs, hit, hit whatever. So I would say division of possibility is bigger in one versus the other, where it's keeping you playing small and it's comfortable versus being big and having a breakout.”

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  27. “You know what I'm saying? So he had a paradigm shift and realized, okay, I'm great. I'm going to be great or I can be great. I'm a great player. I see myself as Michael Jordan capable of doing everything. When you have a breakthrough, that means you're changing how you see things. And when you change how you see things, then things change. So when you change how you see things, things you look at change, the constant improvement is great to have improvement, but a breakout has to do with you could be improving and be in a little pond.”

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  28. “Incremental improvements means you're just improving. But when you have a paradigm shift, then it's totally different because when you're improving something, okay, I'm going to improve this shift. I'm going to do it. So that can be a trap. It can be helpful, but it can be a trap because you're just looking to improve instead of looking to break out. As Stephen Covery says, every breakthrough is a break with. So you have to change the paradigm. So you have to change how you see yourself. So if you keep, so Michael Jordan's, what did he say when he hit the winning shot against Georgetown and the NCAAs? He said, I went from Mike Jordan to Michael Jordan.”

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  29. “Then once I commit to that and I have the experience of going through it and then coming to another level of grace, of ease, of peace, then I continue to do that. That's what I talk about, the superpower trust. You need trust, but when you can verify it through insight, through information, through experience, now it goes from confidence to conviction. And then now you get on a beneficial cycle where things keep getting, the grits get richer. Because you know that if you learn and you achieve, it's going to generate enthusiasm and you're going to want to learn more. You're going to want to commit to it because you know that, and this is what elites do, they see those things as challenges. Oh, this is great. This is an opportunity for me to express myself. That mindset is the growth mindset, but it's also pursuing excellence.”

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  30. “Or they got you in a box, and now you're out of the box. So now they got to refigure who you are. They're going to keep you in the box and get mad at you. So for whatever reason, but it always comes down to discomfort, being uncomfortable. The nervous system is wired this way. If it's pleasant, we move approach. It's unpleasant we avoid. And if it's neither with indifference, we space out What the nervous system does so when you impute meaning onto something and say it's going to be great, even though it's uncomfortable, I know on the other side this is the only way out is true.”

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  31. “A military term they use vuca V UCA from moment to moment things are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. So you have to embrace uncertainty. That's part of the life. This is what life is about. It's about saying yes and. Yes, it's frustrating, it's unpleasant, and it's okay. This is it. When I grow, this is what comes with it. If I achieve my goals, you look at the positive, but there's a negative. The other side is you're in a rowboat with people you change. They got to change. They got to move. They don't want to move.”

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  32. “Some level is restricting, but on another level is yes, either or. So when you start understanding that there's no meaning in the universe other than what you give it, or even though you could do this thing, you can also do that thing. And when you do this thing, you no longer have those things. So if I have five choices and I make one, I lose four. So now that I'm in here and now I'm worried, oh, did I make the right choice? So the uncertainty.”

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  33. “When you change a behavior or a habit, you have to experience anxiety. You have to experience uncertainty. You have to experience discomfort because we're comfortable with where we are. And so when we grow, the only way that happens is you got to be able to be a little bit uncomfortable. You got to be beyond your comfort zone. You got to have this comfort zone where you go into. And then because we adapt to things, then you will adapt. So it's possible you get comfortable with being uncomfortable. So the dizziness of freedom is like, okay, before when you didn't have freedom, you did the same thing. You don't have to think. You don't have to reflect. You don't have to take a risk. You don't have to be vulnerable. But now you're being freedom and you're going to a different door. You're trying something else than the dizziness of it is you do this thing where you can do that thing. How do you make a choice out of all of these options? And you want to have more options because if you only have two options.”

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  34. “Freedom is not free, if you will. So the dizziness of freedom is because you're on the road less traveled or you're on shaky ground. The ground you're on is moving to the degree that, and I'm going back to 1846, Sodom Kirke. And he said that one side of the coin is freedom or potential, the heads, the other side is anxiety or uncertainty. He called it the alarming possibility of being able.”

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  35. “Well, if this is what you're interested in, here's an application. Is a way of thinking or looking at it, and you might consider these things.”

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  36. “I saw that he was trying really hard. And several years ago, when he invited me to go down to New Port and Hangout with him, I asked him about that. And he said that he remembered everything I told him. He has like a photographic memory, but it's picking the time to really ask him how they're seeing things or talk to them about, okay, I know you want to achieve this. Think about this. A lot of people think that the practice of mindfulness, the practice of insight meditation is just sitting and being still, there's a big part of it is cultivating wisdom and talking about integrity, talking about walking your talk, but also understanding how to cultivate a sense of compassion for yourself and others and how to, I guess, love is the way I would talk about it. When you love something, you labor for it, you make it grow. And so talking about just heart to heart, just talking about.”

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  37. “Interesting because I spend a lot of my time just sitting there observing, most of it is observing and getting a sense for where people are and then finding the moment when I can go in and give them a teaching or talk to them about something they're dealing with. I had a conversation with Kobe early on in my first year I worked with them when I said to Kobe the best way to score is not to try to score.”

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  38. “And then you have stillness and movement. It's my teaching. My seafood used to talk about this movement and stillness and stillness and movement. So you have to understand my modality is more like physical. So how do I move myself in the stillness?”

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  39. “Just being present with it and relating to them as each individual and understanding how or what will work for them. When I first started doing this, I didn't like standing still. I used to do more walking meditation than sitting or do more Tai Chi or more yoga. But I talk about sometimes you got to move your way in the stillness.”

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  40. “Doing this because this can enhance you. And by the way, you know, I did this with this person or, you know, I know the leads, they do that. Yeah, I've been with Jay, Dr. J. I'm talking about. And he, you know, I know for a fact there's certain practices people have, there's certain ways of being that you can have. So some people are auditory, some people are visual, some people are kinesthetic. So I have to meet them in that modality where they can take in information. So a lot of it is connecting with them. I don't know how to say it. And then feeling your way through.”

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  41. “When I say talk about meeting people where they are, I let the wisdom and the mind from this dictate what I do. I have to get insight. I have to get a clarity of, okay, what's the context? How do I deal with this person? One size does not fit all. It has to be a specificity of really getting clear, but also getting clear in my mind what's my intention. But at the same time, it's just going in and just figuring out how to relate to them in a way that makes sense. You think about the great spiritual teachers like Jesus of Buddha They talk in parables. Or if they're going to talk to Carpenters, they're going to use carpentry examples. If you're going to talk to people who are bricklayers or stonemasons, you're going to use that language to express the essence of what you're talking about. So when you talk to people about if you create a vision of possibility where you say, hey, you're challenged with this or you want to achieve this, you might consider.”

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  42. “But it's really more about them. It was really more about teaching them from moment to moment how they're relating to their experience and understanding the quality of mind that they have, the mind state that they have, and how to just be in the moment and be clear about what you're doing and what you're getting and the willingness to adjust and adapt. Like you said, what gets you here is just what that is. It got you here. But to go beyond that, you have to let go to grow. And you have to be willing to develop other habit patterns, other ways of being to go to continue to evolve and to grow. So it's really more about the inner game and them getting clarity about what they want and who they're being and how to develop the me, but the we has to be the context in which the me is operating.”

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  43. “You know, so you just meet them where they are, and then if you can kind of bring them in. But some people, they thrive. I mean, everybody's different. Some people like quiet. Some people want, you know, rousing music. It's different.”

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  44. “You just do one thing at a time. So if you have a process where you're going to write tickets for a certain amount of time, a certain time during the pregame thing, then you do that, then you set that aside. Then you have to have your space and time for your readiness for you to get ready to play. But I didn't really get into that. They'd have to ask me about it. Back in those days, it was really different. It was like they had a volunteer. Whereas now the analogy I would use is before it was like laissez-faire, the ones that wanted to do it fine, ones that didn't. That's fine. But I have the analogy of if you have somebody out in the rain. At least go out there with an umbrella and ask them if they want to come in.”

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  45. “People and just not give energy to that. It's just really understand that what's really important. You have to understand that even though you have your family with you, even though there's certain things that are going on, you have to create a kind of a cocoon for yourself to be ready to play. And so your rituals, your rituals, the day of the game. And so I would talk to them about rituals, but it was really more about there's no such thing as multitasking.”

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  46. “Yes, the thing is, understanding that whatever you're doing, you got to be fully present to it and understand what are you doing and what are the consequences, what's it costing you? How much energy can you allow for this activity versus the next activity? I would say a lot of things to them. One thing I would say to them is don't believe the hype. So what does that mean? That means that when you go get interviewed, they tell you you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, you say thank you and you just smile. And if they tell you you're the biggest choke artist of all time, you just thank them and smile. So it's more about how they relate.”

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  47. “Or you have to make it river for them, and you have to understand that less is more might be better for you to teach them how to stretch and relax a little bit. And then depending on their situation, and you can teach them some people maybe need more standing yoga poses, whatever. So my whole idea was you got to start with the understanding of what you can do to help the situation and you got to meet people where they were. So a lot of people, I think, at least in some cases, they come in not understanding that the context is more important than the content.”

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  48. “Can have the training in these disciplines, but you have to meet people where they are. And so they would come in and I remember having conversations with this one particular person. And I told her, I said, they just had two and a half hour practice. You can't take them through two hours of yoga. Can't do it”

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  49. “I think that Phil used to do sessions with the guys, but it was obvious, and he says it in his books, that it made sense for somebody from the outside to come in. And because I could do it in a way where they could listen to me and I had a user-friendly language, you know, I could teach in any domain. That was all of those years going and making house calls, if you will, not working in the main centers or the traditional places, but going where people lived and being able to talk to them in a language they could understand, but yet give them the essence of the teachings. But he has, from time to time, he's brought in yoga teachers. He brought in somebody to teach him Tai Chi. But the thing was, I think a lot of people...”

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  50. “Yes, that's what it was. Okay, how's this dude? Oh, it's okay when everything's nice, but what's going to happen when everybody's butts on fire? How is he going to, is he going to be able to meet the challenge?”

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