{"id":4688,"date":"2020-01-30T13:05:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2020-02-27T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:44:11","slug":"pure-performance-by-george-mumford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/01\/30\/pure-performance-by-george-mumford\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Performance by George Mumford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On January 27<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, I attended Pure Performance by George Mumford, a mindfulness and performance expert. Despite the event beginning with a video montage of Mumford giving televised interviews, speeches and other professional settings, his entire lecture was unplanned. He repeatedly stated that he doesn\u2019t plan his speeches and lets \u201cthe moment\u201d dictate where the conversation will go. He started the night guiding the full Ukrop auditorium through breathing exercises and then spoke in a storytelling manner for about forty-five minutes. His overall message was to be loving to one another and several of his mantras were rooted in religion such as, \u201cBe still, and know\u2026\u201d and seeing \u201cself in other, other in self\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He did not use a presentation, which at times made it difficult to follow along, but my favorite part of the event was the Q&amp;A. This is where his wisdom and expertise shined, and where I learned to think of the world around me in different ways. For example, a student asked for advice on how college students can be kinder to themselves and Mumford responded by saying, \u201cTreat yourself the way you treat others\u2026realize you\u2019re a masterpiece\u2026believe who you want to be (i.e. generous, patient) is who you already are.\u201d In the end, I felt it was a refreshing message given the state of the campus community and appreciated his emphasis on how we should treat others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 27th, I attended Pure Performance by George Mumford, a mindfulness and performance expert. Despite the event beginning with a video montage of Mumford giving televised interviews, speeches and other professional settings, his entire lecture was unplanned. He repeatedly stated that he doesn\u2019t plan his speeches and lets \u201cthe moment\u201d dictate where the conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4677,"featured_media":4690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/files\/2020\/01\/57e1d743485ba814ea898675c6203f78083edbed5355714e762778_640_george-mumford-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}