Jim Murphy’s book Inner Excellence intrigues me because it breaks down how the mind works. Often times people sell themselves short on life goals or wonder why they aren’t happy once they reach their goal. Various techniques are shown throughout the book to help to assess your mental wellbeing. This book shows you how to become mentally tough and apply it to any aspect of life: business, school, athletic, or casual. Success is the ultimate goal in life, but how much of success is mental?
Every accomplished person will tell you that failure and success are one in the same. Shakespeare wrote “nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so,” Many people don’t know how to deal with failure when they don’t reach their goal. Often times people will give up on reaching their goals. In Malcom Gladwell’s book David and Goliath, …show more content…
Jim Murphy uses the story of other people and gives the reader the insight on the mindset of successful people. He adopted this method through the study of psychiatrist Abraham Maslow who analyses successful people and their traits. Throughout the book you find stories from NFL players, Olympic athletes, world record holders, and even Samurai. In chapter 3 of the book Murphy uses the story of Lewis Gordon Pugh to teach fearlessness in the mind and push yourself to new heights. Lewis Pugh swam one kilometer in water that was -1.7 degrees Celsius cold enough to kill someone in less than a minute. Jim assess the mindset of Pugh and gives the keys to show you how to take aspects from his mentality and apply them to your life by giving the reader follow-up questions and activities at the end of each chapter. This is done throughout the book and helps the reading easy to apply because it is proven to work because of the backing of the personal accounts from others. The research to enhance the stories are taken from books on psychology in order to show you how the mind
Every accomplished person will tell you that failure and success are one in the same. Shakespeare wrote “nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so,” Many people don’t know how to deal with failure when they don’t reach their goal. Often times people will give up on reaching their goals. In Malcom Gladwell’s book David and Goliath, …show more content…
Jim Murphy uses the story of other people and gives the reader the insight on the mindset of successful people. He adopted this method through the study of psychiatrist Abraham Maslow who analyses successful people and their traits. Throughout the book you find stories from NFL players, Olympic athletes, world record holders, and even Samurai. In chapter 3 of the book Murphy uses the story of Lewis Gordon Pugh to teach fearlessness in the mind and push yourself to new heights. Lewis Pugh swam one kilometer in water that was -1.7 degrees Celsius cold enough to kill someone in less than a minute. Jim assess the mindset of Pugh and gives the keys to show you how to take aspects from his mentality and apply them to your life by giving the reader follow-up questions and activities at the end of each chapter. This is done throughout the book and helps the reading easy to apply because it is proven to work because of the backing of the personal accounts from others. The research to enhance the stories are taken from books on psychology in order to show you how the mind