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333 reviews for:
Le jeu intérieur du tennis: comment changer son mental pour atteindre l'excellence
Zach Kleinman, W. Timothy Gallwey, Pete Carroll
4.02 AVERAGE
333 reviews for:
Le jeu intérieur du tennis: comment changer son mental pour atteindre l'excellence
Zach Kleinman, W. Timothy Gallwey, Pete Carroll
4.02 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Loved it, fresh perspective on focus and inner trust to allow yourself to act free of distraction.
Best lines and takeaways.
- Quiet Self 1(Master Ego Controller / Inner Coach /Overthinking), allow him to admire and not interupt Self 2 from doing his thing (Natural Talent / Player / Feel & Flow)
- Resist deducing why, just ask body to reproduce. Forget should, experience is.
- Observe with detachment, visualise and ask self 2 what the answer looks like, then let it happen
- Enjoy reproducing the feeling of preparing for a shot low, visualising the ball falling inside the front ring and the feeling of a snapped follow through on the way up.
- Continue to renue trust in yourself and abandon the noises that undermine trust in self 2.
- What really want out of sport is to play freely as myself, then sport becomes a vehical/tool for improving your focus rather than what needs to be focussed on
Best lines and takeaways.
- Quiet Self 1(Master Ego Controller / Inner Coach /Overthinking), allow him to admire and not interupt Self 2 from doing his thing (Natural Talent / Player / Feel & Flow)
- Resist deducing why, just ask body to reproduce. Forget should, experience is.
- Observe with detachment, visualise and ask self 2 what the answer looks like, then let it happen
- Enjoy reproducing the feeling of preparing for a shot low, visualising the ball falling inside the front ring and the feeling of a snapped follow through on the way up.
- Continue to renue trust in yourself and abandon the noises that undermine trust in self 2.
- What really want out of sport is to play freely as myself, then sport becomes a vehical/tool for improving your focus rather than what needs to be focussed on
Like most people here have already pointed out, this is not really about tennis. It's a self-help book. And as far as self-help books go, it's pretty good.
This book is an important 20th century mass introduction (more likely: re-introduction) of Hindu and Buddhist ideas to the West in a way that is palatable to the active yuppies of the 70s. An excellent display of skillful means that, if read seriously, can improve your game (whatever that is) and improve your mental and spiritual life. It had a profound impact on my dad when he was training at his professional sport and I could tell how it could completely shift the mindset of similarly motivated athletes. Also, it doesn't draw on too long, gets to the point, reads easy, and finishes off with a nice moral and personal story by the author.
got really repetitive and boring. might come back to this during the summer.
I would recommend this book to anybody looking to improve at anything not just Tennis. Has helped me improve in music, sports, and general practicing. Definitely a great read.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Yes, I know this is about tennis, and yet I've put it on my music and singing shelf. The first time I read this I'd never played tennis outside of learning the rules and bashing the ball around during gym class. The second time I read it, I substituted the word singing every time Gallwey wrote "tennis" and it worked. It's an excellent book for helping anyone involved in a physical activity requiring great skill AND finesse find their peak performance.
This book is about relaxed concentration and what it can do for your performance, in anything really. He makes the same distinction between ego & self that a lot of other books do (Power of Now, Second Mountain, How to Change Your Mind), but in contrast spends more time on how the two relate to learning, competing, and winning.
I really like how he talks about how competition fits into this framework. I've equated competition with comparison for a long time and the "Meaning of Competition" chapter changed my mind. Basically, he argues that the "egoless desire to win" exists and that competition creates meaningful wins. It's funny because in that case your opponent is both crucial and irrelevant to the outcome. You could find and replace tennis with research and it all makes sense lolol. This chapter by itself is what made me really like it!!
two quotes:
- "I would say that the natural learning process is so encoded, and that we would do well to acknowledge and respect it."
- “How can the quality of one’s tennis assume such importance that it causes anxiety, anger, depression and self-doubt?”
I really like how he talks about how competition fits into this framework. I've equated competition with comparison for a long time and the "Meaning of Competition" chapter changed my mind. Basically, he argues that the "egoless desire to win" exists and that competition creates meaningful wins. It's funny because in that case your opponent is both crucial and irrelevant to the outcome. You could find and replace tennis with research and it all makes sense lolol. This chapter by itself is what made me really like it!!
two quotes:
- "I would say that the natural learning process is so encoded, and that we would do well to acknowledge and respect it."
- “How can the quality of one’s tennis assume such importance that it causes anxiety, anger, depression and self-doubt?”
As many have previously mentioned, this book does not strictly pertain to the game of tennis, but is a great way to approach to tap into the mental game between thinking and physically doing. The concepts that Gallwey help to break from the mental blocks we place on ourselves in order to tap into the potential our bodies have and know is great. As a person who tends to overthink things and criticize myself a lot, I've personally gained a lot from this book. It's also a fast and easy read.
I wanted to like this, but found it too focused on just athletics. Maybe it was laziness, but would have preferred the author closed the loop on connecting these principals to other aspects of life (work/personal)