Community Tennis

If you memorize the steps, you have a direct, simple and fast path to obtain the result.

Until the world changes.

Even the tiniest shift in the system will render your memorization useless.

On the other hand, if you understand the concept, you’ll be able to produce the steps whenever you need them.

• Seth Godin

Find the most generous explanation for each other’s behavior and believe it.

Rely too much on experience and you close yourself off to the new that doesn’t pattern match the old.

Rely too much on understanding and you lose a risk tolerance that brings big upside.

Rely too much on gut and you’re shooting in the dark.

So somehow, we navigate the balance, hopefully better and better, and that’s our process of improving. I find

Signs you’re maturing as a tennis player:

You don’t get mad when balls roll on your court.

You’re okay practicing with players worse than you

You’re okay practicing with old balls

You realize a fresh grip and some decent string can make almost any racquet playable

• Conor Casey

Economic efficiency requires widespread access to and sharing of information. People can’t make good decisions if they don’t have a sense of the total picture.

• Shane Parrish

“Third places” are neither home nor work/school, where we can go to experience companionship and community. They’re neutral ground where those gathered are on equal footing.

Third places produce a dynamism because of the diversity of people gathered. In other places we’re more likely to be surrounded by people similar to ourselves. Third places of

Compliance is what people do when they have to; commitment is what they do when they want to.

Carlos Alcaraz revealed the simple words from his veteran coach Samuel Lopez that inspired his title run at Monte Carlo :

“ ‘Stay positive’ is the thing that he repeated most this week. ‘Stay strong and stay positive’,” said Alcaraz. “One thing that he told me and probably was the key of this great week was, ‘You have to face the difficulties you ha

Rejection isn’t a verdict; it’s data. Use it.