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Competing isn't the answer

Competing isn't the answer

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Competing isn't the answer

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- [Instructor] A few years ago, I read a great book by Tim Gallwey called, The Inner Game of Tennis. It's easy to find on Amazon and you can even get it second-hand if you want to save some money, but whatever you pay it'll be a bargain because it's brilliant, and I want to tell you about one particular thing I read in this little book that changed my life, so, here we go. In the book, he explains that there are only three reasons to play tennis or learn an instrument like the saxophone or to do anything really, and two of these reasons are false. The first reason to do something and to try to become good at something is competition; to beat other people. You might want to get better at tennis in order to beat others, and it does feel good to win a match, so you might think that that is a root to increasing your happiness, but you'd be wrong, because you'll never beat everyone, and if you win only 50% of your matches, you might well, come out with an overall feeling of unhappiness…

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