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George Mumford

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“Answer your question, yes, that's what happened. I came in and he realized that it could work, and especially it's nothing like baptism, you know, baptism by fire.”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wasn't a curse, it was a blessing, wouldn't be who I was if I didn't experience that. How do we relate to life in a way where it empowers and inspires us? That's why even I was down here. That's why I worked so well with Phil because he didn't have my philosophy. He had the philosophy of just shut up and dribble, I wouldn't be able to work with him.”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was around celebrity. Dr. Jay was Michael Jordan before Michael Jordan. So even when I was in college, being his roommate, everywhere he went, it was like not quite like the Beatles, but everybody would come and he just couldn't go many places because he would draw a crowd. He had a certain level of charisma and stuff. So I had my experience, had the experience of, and I used to go visit him when he played in the ABA. So I've been around the NBA and that sort of thing. So it made perfect sense for me to go in and to teach them how to deal with the stress of success. That was the initial thing. But of course, when I had gone down there, they had an identity crisis as well as an opportunity to grow. And that's what I proposed to the team is that crisis has two meanings. One meaning is danger, which we get, but the other meaning is opportunity. This is an opportunity to look just like me. It's an opportunity, my substance.”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just basketball players. And so bringing me in to help them deal with the stress of success because I was working in a stress reduction clinic. It made a lot of sense. I had similar backgrounds and I played basketball. I was an athlete”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Phil, we have a similar philosophy. You may recall when LeBron James entered into the political sphere, they told him to just dribble and shut up. Phil looks at the whole person as a basketball player with a body, mind, heart, and soul. And so to him, his job is to care for them and be on basketball. And they had just won three NBA championships. They were dealing with the stress of success. What happens when you become successful? Everybody comes at you. They want something. He wanted them to be prepared and wanted to support them in their ability to sustain that success and to continue to grow and evolve as people.”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Spiritual warrior, and just like martial arts, you have to train a certain way. And so I talked about martial arts. I studied Tai Chi for a lot of years. I brought Zen and the martial arts. That's what I presented to them. And then being in the zone, being in flow, that's how it all started. And then it just took off from there.”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, so at that summer interaction, Phil was and his wife at the time, June, they were interested in having somebody come in and work with the bulls out because they had just won three MBA championships in a row. And so they were given a presentation and then they saw me and they said, well, who's this guy? And you work with? And they said, yeah, this is George Mumford, he room with Dr. J. And he does this. And they said he would be perfect for our team. And so Phil and I talked and he invited me to training camp in 1993. And in the interim, we talked in July. An interim, Michael Jordan's father got murdered and Michael retired when I showed up in Chicago in October 1993. They were in full-blown crisis. And then I went in and I had to pretty much doing an intervention with the team. I talked about being a”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I was working at the medical center, and at that time we had the prison project, we were in about five Department of Corrections, Massachusetts Department of Corrections prisons. But I also taught at their training facility. I used to work with staff, do two cycles a year of teaching the staff mindfulness-based stress reduction. At that time, John used to go to this place called Omega Institute. John Kebanzen. And he was out there, him and his partner, Saki Santorelli, and they met. And Phil used to do a program called Beyond Basketball there. So they were there on campus at the same time and they were talking.”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The thing I like about it, he says to become a leader, you have to become yourself. So I've been focusing on leadership a little bit more recently. But any of the books that, you know, some of the books about the teachings of the Buddha or psychology books, I read a lot of Rollo May, the meaning of anxiety, Eric From. There's a bunch of guys, obviously. Be a good one. It's really challenging for me to answer that question because it's fluid.”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In my beginner's mind used to be one that I would recommend years ago. So it depends on the time and who the person is. But I think more recently when we're talking about performance, when I'm working with clients, there's a book called The Three Laws of Performance. This is what that looks like. This is a really good one.”
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“I end thou the way of man, I got really drawn to existentialism when I went back to graduate school and I studied Victor Franco and Man Search for Meaning and what I call the religious existentialists like Victor Franco and Martin Buber. And then there's Camusatra, Kierkegaard.”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I said, The Bible. And I don't know where that came from. It just came out of my deep sense. And I said, well, that makes sense because there's one in every hotel room and there's a lot of stuff in there. And I said the acronym that I remember is ask A-S-K. And that is Ask and it shall be given to you seeking ye shall find, knocking. It shall be open to you. It's amazing. I went to Sunday school until I was 13. Then I stopped going to church. Yet as I get older, all of those sayings like there's even mindfulness in the Bible, a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. And I started realizing that spiritual truth is spiritual truth, whether it comes out of the Bible or the Quran or the Kabbalah, it doesn't matter. Or from the Buddhist teachings, it's all that wisdom, literature, and philosophy. I read a lot of Matt Muber stuff.”
2021-04-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #509: George Mumford, Mindfulness Coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, on Awareness, Compassionate Action, The Dizziness of Freedom, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very whole Wendy was on a New York bestseller list for like 10 years Roll Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, but also Zen Mind Begin's Mind. There was a lot of books Pain as Motivator. Love is letting go of fear. And there were a lot of different books. But the Bible was always in there. It's interesting. I was doing a presentation at Lululemon for about a thousand people a couple years ago. And they asked me, well, what book would I recommend? And I was thinking about because there's tons of books. depends on where you are and what books work for you.”
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“Control of your life in the sense of being responsible and understanding how the mind and body work and how we can relate to our experience in a way that leads to more peace, ease, freedom, compassion.”
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“That time, it was called stress reduction and relaxation program. I ended up working there for five years. I had a prison project and then we developed an inner city project. But I lived at the meditation center in Cambridge for six years while I was working in two years where I wasn't working where I was just meditating and reading and studying and teaching going out from the center would get these requests from different outlets could be a youth center could be a business like AT&T or Nyx at the time and I would go out and I would teach mindfulness. I would teach meditation. I have a business school. So I was doing my training to become a teacher at the same time I was continuing to grow and evolve. And then when I worked at the Center for Mindfulness, it was part of my job is to teach mindfulness-based stress reduction. But really, it was more about teaching them the same process I had. It's the inner game and how to”
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“Or I have my concept of God, which worked for me and allowed me to understand that there is a power greater myself and that all I had to do is basically there's a plug in the wall. All I had to do is plug into the power source and I would be able to do things. And then as a natural outgrowth of that, she suggested that I go to do a retreat at this place and Barry Mask called Insight Meditation Society. And so I did a weekend retreat there. was introduced to the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, which is in Cambridge, right? In the city. And you could go there and do daylongs and stuff like that. So that's how I got into it. And then while I was doing that, my teacher there, Larry Rosenberg, was good friend with John Cabot Zen. After three, four years of recovery, I connected with John and then I did the Mind Finish Based Reduction. Then I ended up working in the Center for Mindfulness.”
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“Or whatever, and that's where I learned about meditation and mindfulness and yoga and some of the mind body practices like Tai Chi and Yoga, obviously. And they gave us a syllabus of a bunch of books to read. I don't know if they had 20, 25 books on that list. I read every one of those books and then I read books that they recommended. So I'm 36 years and six months clean and sober and I have averaged over a book a week during that time. So I just really got into understanding. I wanted to understand how did I get clean and others don't. What was the motivation? How do I enhance my ability to grow and develop? And so I got really stimulated, intellectually stimulated around that. And that's how I got into this whole thing of mindfulness. And then I was doing that. And that helped with my recovery. I was already in 12 steps. My recovery was pretty good because I was connected to the spare.”
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“So I had the chronic pain. And so at the same time, I was in an HMO back in those days. And they had this experimental program. So I had a therapist I was working with that helped me, you know, sort out stuff so I can go into the detox. And I was working with him. And when I got out, we were talking about strategies. And they had this experimental program run out of Beth Israel run by Dr. Joan Borisinco, who at the time was one of the three psychoimmunologists in the world. It just means mind-body, medicine, and the endocrine system and that sort of thing. So they had the stress management program. So I signed up and I had a P and Spit and they take pre and post testing. And what they did was they introduced us to this idea of taking responsibility for ourselves, learning about the mind-body process, but being an active participant with the healthcare that we were getting, whether it was the doctor.”
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“I was going to chiropractic before, you know, when it still wasn't viewed like it is today. So I had a lot of pain. I was dealing with my pain, administering pain medicine, not just physical, but emotional and probably spiritual pain”
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“I had some stabilization. So that was my first experience. But what also happened when I got clean, I had chronic pain. My migraine headaches, which if anybody ever had a migraine headache, you know when it gets to a point, doesn't matter what they give you. It's just not enough. And I had chronic back pains, which I had since college. I used to sleep on a bedboard and I've been going to a chiropractor since 1975. So what is that? 46 years?”
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“What happened was just to give you a little insight, my spiritual experience of my first mindfulness or meditative experience that I can think of that was powerful was that day I got out of the detox and maybe it was the next day I went to work I went to work, I had like it was three weeks out of work. I had all this money waiting for me and the obsession to use, the compulsion obsession to use came upon me. This is the thing. I got triggered. And I knew that if I were to go into the restroom and the men's room and just recite the serenity prayer, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. I did that like a mantra, just repeating it silently over and over and the obsession was removed.”
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“Life on life terms where I could really see it and not seeing it through a face or through a haze. Because I lived in fantasy or I was hiding out in plain sight. So, I didn't know that until I noticed that, oh, I'm really seeing things, but it was more about me really seeing life and seeing myself. For the first time without having the influence of substances or hiding out in my own little inner fantasy world.”
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“Yeah, I was living in Dorchester. I mean, actually, I lived in Matapan, so I was living in Boston. A lot was happening. I lost my car. I was just barely surviving. I continued to work and everything. But I had some issues. And when I did that and the detoxes and walking distance from my house, and so after I got out of the detox and walked home, it was the first time I ever saw my house, my”
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“The same George that goes in, if that George comes out, he's going to get high. He's going to keep doing what he's doing, so you have to be a different person. You have to be a different George. And I don't know where that came from. It was just a thought that told me that I had to do it differently. I had to be different.”
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“Sobriety. I went to the meeting and then I continued to use, but I started thinking about ways. And then when I went into the detox, I was different. But I think all of that paid dividends, even though I was around recovery, going to meetings, but I was still getting high and, well, using drugs and alcohol, but mostly, yeah, I was doing both. But it was different. Something changed when I shifted, when I went through my first meeting. But then what happened when I went into the detox. There was a thought process or inner dialogue that said the same George that goes in here can't be the same George that comes out.”
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“Maybe not at the penthouse, but if I was on the 25th floor, I'm now on the fourth floor, then I'm heading towards the third floor. So I decided to get out because, you know, I just couldn't do it anymore. It was just emotionally, it was like being in a place where I couldn't do it anymore, but I could not do it because it was a habit. That was in March when I think started hitting the rock bottom. And then when my friend came by, it took me to A meeting on April 1st. That's when I saw that there was, it was a way forward. There was a way out. I looked at this person that was like me, but yet he was.”
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“I had an incident, I think it was in March, because I went to my first 12 step meeting, which was AA on April Food's Day, April 1st. In March, I had a strep infection, but I didn't know that I was sick until I went to the doctors and I had 140 degree temperature, so I had to go in the hospital. I went in the hospital and I had an abscess on my arm, and they had to treat it, and they wouldn't give me any pain meds because they knew I was addicted to drugs and I was withdrawing or whatever. And at that point, as people would say, you know, if you keep this up, you're going to die. And for some reason, it hit me that I just couldn't do it anymore. And so I got to a spiritual bottom. So I call it the elevator theory. You might start off at the penthouse. And for some people, they have to go to the sub level, B2 or B3, whatever it is. But for me, I knew I was at.”
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“Give me a vaccination spot. And I realized that it reminded me when I started using drugs, I didn't start off just going into the vein. I started off what we call skin popping, just like getting a vaccine. They just put it into your system, into the skin. So it always starts where you, you know, you just get high a little bit, then it keeps growing. It's a progressive thing. It's a progressive disease. And it kept progressing. And then you start doing other things. And then you start doing things in combination. And then you're doing drugs that not even your drugs of choice or drinking things you don't even drink. You're looking to get high. So it's the emotional pain, but it's also a way of dealing with reality. So that was my thing. I was under influence in one way, form or fashion.”
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“It's complex, but one of the things I discovered in my days of competing as an athlete when I got injured, they didn't have pain medicine. So they would give me Davaron or they'd give me some kind of pain because I was always in pain. Part of it was emotional pain. I had a lot of stomach problems or GI issues because of stress. I noticed that when I was under the influence of these pain meds that I actually felt good and I could talk to people. Other than that, I was quiet and shy like my basketball talk to me. So it impacted me in a certain way, like in the addiction. So you do it, you do it, and then you cross that line where you become addicted. You cannot not do it. Not only does it become something that your body craves, but it becomes part of a lifestyle, part of an identity. So I got my first vaccination shot two weeks ago, tomorrow. And I remember, so she went right into my arm.”
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“From shooting up, yes. So in those days, when I Was getting my security clearance, they literally had FBI agents coming around and interviewing my friends and family going back 10 years. You have to go through this tremendous process just to get a secret clearance, then it's top secret. But I had the secret clearance. So I had the clearance, but at the same time, I had this hidden life of, you know, tracks on my own. So that's very accurate. It's totally accurate. And it wasn't until probably when I got clean in 84 years after that that there's no more track marks. But for yes, it was very tenuous because I was concerned about past and physicals because I had to get examined by the doctors and they say, oh, what's up with that? What's that on your arm? You know, they kind of know what it looks like. That was a process. And as a matter of fact, when I used to have to give blood sometimes, they would make a comment like, well, you got that all used up look on your arms, you know? So I would just laugh at it.”
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“Explain, please. Yeah, that was totally accurate because when my first job out of college was I was working in what was called was a financial management development program. And I was working for GTE, Sylvania. I don't even know what they're called now, but general telephone electronics and then Sylvania light bulbs. And there was a big company. At the time when I got out of college, I was a functional addict. And so I had tracks on my arm. So I always wore long sleeve shirts. I couldn't wear short-sleeved shirts.”
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“It's with a purpose, and there's a cat like quality to it. And what I mean by like a cat-like quality, like you can see a cat, a house cat, they can go from being kind of chill to jump into action with a grace, with an ease, with a ferocity, and with a direction, like a direct assault or whatever. He was like, yeah, he could punch on you any minute.”
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“Where he was acting like he was trying to make the team. Now, I don't mean like he has an anxiety and he's trying to impress people. I'm saying he was proven that he's the best player on the court. You were getting his best. You were getting at a high level. He wasn't resting. He was acting like I need to get better. I need to prove a point. Not so much prove a point, but to let people know that there's no way I'm not making this team or there's no way I'm not going to be central to what we're doing. So I see it as a positive. I don't remember saying that because I don't know if I would say, I would say he has high energy. I know other people that have high energy. But his difference of him having high energy.”
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“Putting forth the extra effort, like I got to make the team. And of course, now I understand why he was that way because what he did was, let's think about how he related to his experience. We call it strong self-efficacy. It's like when you mastery your life experiences. So he got cut from his high school basketball team. 10th grade. And so I think at that time he made a decision he would never get cut from a team again. And I saw that in the practice.”
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“No, I never said that. Okay. I never know because my thing is see, I know the difference between high intensity and having an intensity based on a mindset that's positive and combined. The one thing I did notice about the first practice that you reminded me of was that when I first saw him practice, he looked like a person trying to make the team.”
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“Meditation circles, we talk about getting into a state of intense state of concentration or samadhi or calm. So when you're really concentrated and you're really locked in, there's like an alert relaxedness. So you're alert, but there's a poise there because you're in the moment, you're centered, and you're just totally present. And that's what it felt like. It just felt like there was an energy, a calm energy, but also an intense energy. So that's what it felt like a combination of intensity and calmness.”
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“Even before I could get close to him, I could feel his aura. I could feel his ability, his level of concentration, his mind focus, his ability, he had this energy. And I'm like an impasse. So I can feel things. I'm a feeler. It was so profound even before I even got to meet him just feeling the energy that exuded from him and his ability to really be the eye of the hurricane in the midst of things. So that was the first fascinating thing I saw about him was just his energy, just walking into the room and meeting him, even though he didn't have on basketball uniform. He wasn't out on the court. He was just in the locker room, just hanging out.”
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“First time I watched Michael Jordan practice, it was amazing because he No difference between how he plays and how he practices. So if you see him performing on the court, that's how he practices. There's no difference just playing at a high level, playing a win, but also you can see how he gets better each time he gets on the court. He just really locked in and really committed to excellence. I want to dovetail because my first encounter with Michael was not in practice. It was when I first went to work with the Bulls, he had retired. And even though he was retired, he wasn't with the team. He actually was hanging around.”
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