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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
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I bought this book twice, if that's not a testament to its quality I don't know what is.
Immediately after I finished listening to the audio book version I went over to amazon and once more gladly gave them my money in exchange for a physical copy. 'Why?' you ask? Because this is not a book you read once, then forget about. This is a book that needs to be absorbed over time, then put aside while you contemplate its messages and let them grow, before once more picking it back up and solidifying what you understood on the first pass, and finding other gems buried beneath your initial lack of understanding.
I followed this process, but the audio book format isn't really suited for this kind of reading, so I decided to order a physical copy as well. I gladly pay twice for something of this quality.
This book pretends to be about tennis, but is in reality about something else entirely. This book is about connecting with your unconscious (referred to as self two in this particular book,
Adam Two in the interesting, yet unsatisfactory The Road to Character by David Brooks, and by many other names in various texts throughout the ages) and it uses the medium of tennis to accomplish this.
I find it entirely fascinating how confusing these topics can be to the intellectual mind before it finally clicks and everything seems so obvious you cannot fathom how concepts like "letting go" and "non-judgement" didn't really mean anything to you before. This transition unfailingly comes through experience rather than logical reasoning however, which I'm betting is the reason why it's so elusive.
I've read Tolle, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Frankl, Burkeman, Pressfield, and Lao Tzu - all talking about the same kind of concepts that Gallwey discusses in this fantastic piece of writing, and while it was Gallwey that pushed me over the edge I think it was all the other writers that pointed me in the direction of the edge in the first place.
Gallwey, much like Herrigel does in the magnificent Zen in the Art of Archery, discusses the familiar Buddhist concepts of letting go of judgement and negativity and observing thoughts and emotions, but through the lens of sport, which somehow finally made it make sense to me. 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.
I'll be forever grateful for finding this book, and I suspect it'll be on my nightstand for many years to come.
Immediately after I finished listening to the audio book version I went over to amazon and once more gladly gave them my money in exchange for a physical copy. 'Why?' you ask? Because this is not a book you read once, then forget about. This is a book that needs to be absorbed over time, then put aside while you contemplate its messages and let them grow, before once more picking it back up and solidifying what you understood on the first pass, and finding other gems buried beneath your initial lack of understanding.
I followed this process, but the audio book format isn't really suited for this kind of reading, so I decided to order a physical copy as well. I gladly pay twice for something of this quality.
This book pretends to be about tennis, but is in reality about something else entirely. This book is about connecting with your unconscious (referred to as self two in this particular book,
Adam Two in the interesting, yet unsatisfactory The Road to Character by David Brooks, and by many other names in various texts throughout the ages) and it uses the medium of tennis to accomplish this.
I find it entirely fascinating how confusing these topics can be to the intellectual mind before it finally clicks and everything seems so obvious you cannot fathom how concepts like "letting go" and "non-judgement" didn't really mean anything to you before. This transition unfailingly comes through experience rather than logical reasoning however, which I'm betting is the reason why it's so elusive.
I've read Tolle, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Frankl, Burkeman, Pressfield, and Lao Tzu - all talking about the same kind of concepts that Gallwey discusses in this fantastic piece of writing, and while it was Gallwey that pushed me over the edge I think it was all the other writers that pointed me in the direction of the edge in the first place.
Gallwey, much like Herrigel does in the magnificent Zen in the Art of Archery, discusses the familiar Buddhist concepts of letting go of judgement and negativity and observing thoughts and emotions, but through the lens of sport, which somehow finally made it make sense to me. 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.
I'll be forever grateful for finding this book, and I suspect it'll be on my nightstand for many years to come.
This really changed my approach to performance, and to music in general!
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
A book more about inner peace, breathing and meditation than about Tennis. Loved it even though I know nothing thing about Tennis.
Though dry and a little wordy, a good read for anyone who competes in a sport at a high-level. I read this book as an effort to improve as a fencer, and I found its lesson useful — even though I skimmed over the tennis parts. Like sports themselves, the lessons of this book have a much broader reach. I find its instruction on managing expectations, allowing the subconscious mind to take over (Self 2) and conditioning behavior to be very helpful.
Helpful model of thinking about the conscious and subconscious self and how it affects learning. More importantly for me I was more interested in the new approach to teaching.
reflective
medium-paced