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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
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The goal was immaculate performance. Wooden often said the only person you’re ever competing against is yourself. The rest is out of your control.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
- learning how to get the clearest possible picture of your desired outcomes; 2) learning how to trust Self 2 to perform at its best and learn from both successes and failures; and 3) learning to see “nonjudgmentally”—that is, to see what is happening rather than merely noticing how well or how badly it is happening. This overcomes “trying too hard.”
W. Timothy Gallwey • The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
The book Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player by Simon Ramo offers a helpful mental model: a distinction between “loser’s games” and “winner’s games.”
When learning tennis, amateurs play a loser’s game, meaning the majority of points come f... See more
- Loser’s games = focusing on minimizing mistakes.
- Winner’s games = focusing on maximizing success.
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Peter Limberg • Chillin’ With Goofies: A Spiritual Practice
The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
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Gallwey’s more recent Inner Game of Work (2001)
David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind
THE PROBLEMS WHICH MOST PERPLEX TENNIS PLAYERS ARE NOT those dealing with the proper way to swing a racket. Books and professionals giving this information abound. Nor do most players complain excessively about physical limitations. The most common complaint of sportsmen ringing down the corridors of the ages is, “It’s not that I don’t know what to
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