{"id":819640,"date":"2025-01-13T23:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/author-jim-murphy-discusses-attention-from-eagles-wr-a-j-brown-reading-his-book\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T23:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:11:57","slug":"author-jim-murphy-discusses-attention-from-eagles-wr-a-j-brown-reading-his-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/author-jim-murphy-discusses-attention-from-eagles-wr-a-j-brown-reading-his-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Jim Murphy Discusses Attention From Eagles WR A.J. Brown Reading His Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Author Jim Murphy was in a Dallas-area hotel room Sunday night, preparing for a retreat, when his phone began to explode.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Murphy was watching a rerun of Notre Dame\u2013Penn State, having missed the College Football Playoff semifinal earlier in the week. As it turns out, his focus should have been on the Philadelphia Eagles 22\u201310 wild-card win over the Green Bay Packers<\/u><\/a>. That\u2019s because Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown was sitting on the bench during the game thumbing through a copy of Murphy\u2019s book, Inner Excellence. <\/em>Brown\u2019s teammates call the book \u201cThe Recipe,\u201d because Brown has read it with regularity throughout the season. Brown says it helps him maintain a sense of calm regardless of what has happened on the previous drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a pretty amazing night,\u201d Murphy says when contacted Sunday after the game. \u201cI\u2019m sitting here in a hotel by myself. I was like, What\u2019s with all these messages?<\/em> And then I saw what happened and I\u2019m like, Oh my God that\u2019s crazy.<\/em> Really neat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt\u2019s really an honor to be a part of his life and to have a meaningful place in anyone\u2019s life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> Searching A.J. Brown\u2019s Book \u2018Inner Excellence\u2019 for the Lessons He May Have Learned<\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

Murphy was a former MLB prospect who had to retire due to vision issues. He moved to Tuscon and lived a spartan lifestyle alone in a house while pouring his life savings into the completion of Inner Excellence. <\/em>For years, he flew around the world talking to renowned experts about how the greatest athletes in the world can perform under incredibly stressful situations and, from there, find a deep sense of meaning and joy not dependent on their performances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He told me he ended up nearly $90,000 in debt following the completion of the book and, following a near cosmic string of circumstances, including donating his last $100 from a cash advance to feed someone in need, his life began to change as his book was picked up by one high-performing athlete or CEO after another.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a message from a golf caddy in Ireland one day and he says, \u2018Can you talk to my friend [PGA Tour golfer] Henrik Stenson? He needs your help.\u2019 So I fly to Sweden and meet with him. Then a few weeks later, I get a call from Hunter Mahan [also a PGA Tour golfer]. After that, I got a call from David Novak, the CEO of Yum Brands! (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut) and he said he sent my book to all his executives around the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Stenson read the book, he won the FedEx Cup. Mahan won a PGA Tour event and a match play championship shortly after working with Murphy, and \u201cI\u2019ve been working with world-class athletes ever since.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Murphy has no relationship with Brown, he does know how the book found its way into the Eagles wide receiver\u2019s locker. Brown\u2019s teammate, Moro Ojomo, received a copy from Murphy\u2019s friend DJ Giaritelli, who is the director of Austin Athletes In Action (Ojomo went to the University of Texas).\u00a0<\/p>\n

He plans on reaching out to the Eagles\u2019 star soon, as the book\u2014published in 2020\u2014undoubtedly gets a second wind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very grateful, and I\u2019m looking forward to talking with A.J. about it,\u201d he says. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a relationship yet, but I\u2019ll send him a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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