The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

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You’ve probably heard the phrase: What we resist persists. The questionis: Okay, I’ll stop resisting… now what? When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as “rootless and stemless.” When you ask most executives “Which of the three work results gains the greatest support and encouragement in your work environment?” their response is overwhelmingly “Performance.” And then when you ask them “How much more priority is performance given over learning and enjoyment?” the response generally has the level way beyond the triangle so that it is only about outer performance and nothing else. Often when we are rallying we trust our bodies and let it happen because the ego-mind tells itself that it doesn’t really count.

Imagine how your life might be different if you really believed and regularly reminded yourself of the following:Rather than trying to stop or eliminate this judgmental self-talk, crowd it out with simple observation and description. On Positive Thinking Highly recommend this book to everyone, sure will be revisiting it to understand deeper the ideas presented in such a metaphoric way!

I saved some of my favorite quotes from the book. It's very, very well written, so it was a challenge not to copy down half the book :)Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-08-20 16:34:45 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1101318 Boxid_2 CH118201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor

the key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.” the emphasis on overcoming the greatest obstacle to achieve the greatest awareness of your abilitiesPerformance ( P) in any activity, from hitting a ball to doing anything in life, is equal to one’s potential ( p) after the interference factor ( i) has been subtracted from the equation. In most people, performance regrettably rarely equals potential. A little self-doubt, an erroneous assumption, the fear of failure, will be all it takes to greatly diminish one’s performance. Strive to be both tactician and general, technician and CEO, psychologist, and philosopher. On Excellence