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In the 1970s he learned meditation techniques which Gallwey said enhanced his powers of concentration in a manner that improved his game. Now available in a revised paperback edition, this classic bestseller can change the way the game of tennis is played.
The playlist includes “The Inner Game of Tennis(In a Nutshell)”, an audio segment taken from the audiobook 50 Success Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon which providesan excellent overview of The Inner Game and the truly ground-breaking work that Tim brought to coaching, leadership and performance improvement.For example, I do not play tennis but I would visualize how I play badminton, and internalize the lessons through that medium. Through the disciplined development of our mental habits, we allow our fullest potential and ability to express itself without interference or constraint. 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. My ex-manager actually gifted this book to me, unaware I had heard about it from another friend a few months prior.
Verbal instruction comes from people with experience, but when it’s passed on to people with no experience, it’s harder to understand. For any sceptics about a coaching style of leadership, this book will help provide real-life examples. In this century, if we do not learn some of the basic skills of The Inner Game theory, our technical progress in the outer game will be of little benefit to ourselves individually or to mankind as a whole in relation to our own sense of oneness with nature and in the universe. Words can give an approximation or a description of actions or ideas or experiences, but they are not the actions or ideas themselves. He argues that we aren’t practicing and learning correctly and suggests a new method that is based on the concepts of playing an inner and an outer game, governed by two selves, one that relies on instinct and the other that governs the thinking mind.These seminal books not only accelerated performance in professional sport but introduced the busines world to multiple high-performance models which have revolutionized not only the coaching industry globally but how organizations themselves can bring the best out in their people and truly achieve exceptional performance. It's more effective to visualize the result you want, and self2 will figure out the how all by itself. The Inner Game of Tennis is a short read, unlike many modern books of its ilk, which often take what could be an essay and balloon it to hundreds of pages by way of excessive examples and testimonials. Since he began writing in the 1970s, his books include this one, The Inner Game of Golf, The Inner Game of Music (with Barry Green), Inner Skiing and The Inner Game of Work.
If you've ever practiced a sport and truly felt 'in the zone' then this experience will be the anchor you need to absorb the potentially abstract topics covered by Gallwey. It’s not enough to simply move our attention away from an unproductive line of thinking like arguing with our own thoughts. In 1974, Tim Gallwey’s book The Inner Game of Tennis profoundly changed the way many people thought about performance improvement, and certainly not just in tennis. My friend, and some would say "coach," gave this to me to read- believing that it would help me get over a few things that I have been struggling with since he read it years ago when he was just getting into the sport himself.
And then when you ask them “How much more priority is performance given over learning and enjoyment? Most of our suffering takes place when we allow our minds to imagine the future or mull over the past.
Last note, I took extra joy in finding out from my dad that this was my late grandfathers favorite book. I have always hindered my own performance by doing all the wrong things: trying too hard, criticizing myself, always trying to correct things but never actually performing any better. It is impossible to judge one event as positive without seeing other evens as not positive or as negative.
It’s difficult to have fun or to achieve concentration when your ego is engaged in what it thinks is a life-and-death struggle.
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