How mindfulness training quietly gives elite athletes an edge

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In an enduring scene from the ultimate episode of The Last Dance, Michael Jordan is fresh off victory and still in the flow. The greatest basketball player is decked out in a tilted ballcap and crisp T-shirt, both commemorating the Chicago Bulls’ second three-peat, as he sits joyfully at a grand piano inside his Salt Lake City hotel suite, encircled by cameras and lights and hangers-on.

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