The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey

The Inner Game of Tennis

7.8/102 min read

2/12/17

  • Express authority. Become the author of your own shot

  • Grasp a visual image of what you want

  • Self one needs to trust self two

  • Focus on the ends, not how you're doing it

  • Learn to get the clearest possible picture of your desired outcome

  • Learn to trust self two 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

  • Getting it together requires a slower mind

  • The first skill to learn is the art of letting go the human inclination to judge ourselves and our performance as either good or bad

  • When we unlearn how to be judgemental, 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

  • Reflect on the silent intelligence and hear it in all self to actions and our attitude and arrogance and mistrust will gradually change

  • Acknowledgment of one's own or another's accomplishments, efforts, etc. can facilitate natural learning where is judgments interfere

  • Letting it happen is not making it happen

  • Getting the clearest possible image of your desired outcomes of the most useful method for communicating with self two, especially when played a match

  • Self one learns to let go a growing confidence in the ability of self two emerges