The Strangest Secret

The Sports Psychologist Who Taught MJ and Kobe How to "Manage the Moment" (Rerun)

excellence, actually, 27 August 2026.

George Mumford cites Earl Nightingale's book while answering a question about how he thinks about success. He quotes its central idea—"we become what we think about"—and its definition of success as "a progressive realization of a worthy idea or goal," which he says he loves as a recovering perfectionist. He uses this framing to explain that he focuses on improving against his previous best self rather than competing against others.

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