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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
amazon.com


- 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.
When learning tennis, amateurs play a loser’s game, meaning the majority of points come f... See more