The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
by Parker · 15 things on Twos
- Express authority. Become the author of your own shot.
- Grasp a visual image of what you want.
- Focus on the ends, not how you're doing it.
- Learn to get the clearest possible picture of your desired outcome.
- Learn to trust yourself to perform at its best and learn from both successes and failures.
- Learn to see nonjudgmentally. That is to see what is happening rather than merely noticing how well or how badly it happens.
- Great works are done when not calculating or thinking. Like a child. This has to be restored.
- Getting it together requires slowness in the mind.
- Self One needs to trust Self Two.
- The first skill to learn is the art of letting go of the human inclination to judge ourselves and our performance as either good or bad.
- When we learn how to be nonjudgemental, it is possible to achieve spontaneous focused play.
- You start to become what you think.
- The first step is to see your strokes as they are.
- Acknowledgment of one's own or another's strengths, efforts, accomplishments, etc. can facilitate natural learning where no judgments interfere.
- Letting it happen is not making it happen.