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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,

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the podcast dedicated to
your pickleball improvement.

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I am your host, Tony Roig.

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Hope you're having a great week.

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As we dive into this podcast, if you

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happen to be watching this on YouTube, and
if you don't know, we do have a YouTube

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where you can see this podcast.

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Let me know in the comments below if
you like this hat that I'm sporting.

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It's a killer hat.

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I'm planning on wearing
it whenever I'm teaching.

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I think it covers half the universe.

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I'm going to take it off now because
it's the best thing to wear indoor.

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But I love the hat, and Let
me know in the comments.

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Do you like it?
Don't like it?

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Whatever.
I'm probably going to get one with a logo

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on it and everything, so
pretty excited about it myself.

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This week's podcast, we're going
to be covering three topics.

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It was going to be two, but then I had a
conversation with one of our team members,

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and she said something that
made me think, You know what?

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That's something we haven't talked about

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in a minute, so we're going
to have a three-subject today.

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We're going to start off by talking
about things that make you happy.

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You're going to like that.
I think, should make you happy.

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Then we're going to talk about

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In the main section, we're going
to talk about Self One, Self Two.

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It's from The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim

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Galway, one of the seminal books in the
area of mental training,

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and something that we're adding another
wrinkle to it inside our book coming out

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in the, hopefully, the
next couple of months.

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But I'm giving you a sneak peek into the

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book by teeing you up
with Self One, Self Two.

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Then in the RIFF, we're going to
talk about too much mental training.

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Is there such a thing?

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As we dive into the podcast, you You

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probably already know by now that we have
a pickleball Academy that has courses that

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are specifically designed
to meet you where you're at.

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If you have a specific concern that's

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going on in your game, it
has all sorts of courses in there.

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The one that I wanted to talk about this

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week a little bit is
one called Partner Play.

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I played this morning, and it's
interesting to see that it's one of those

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situations, it was four players,
and we rotate different partners.

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When you have a partner

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that you jive, it doesn't necessarily mean
that they have to be exactly like you or

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that they're all ra-ra for you,
even though that's good, too.

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It really changes the energy.

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It reminds me of this last weekend, one of

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our team members, Kylene,
played in the tournament in the APP

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tournament in New York with her friend
Jess, and they were hugging all the time,

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and the energy was so positive,
and they ended up with a bronze medal.

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So that positive energy goes a long way,

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and that partner play is really helpful to
understand how to play with a partner,

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because remember, when you're
playing doubles, it is a team sport.

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All right, let's dive
into the makes me happy.

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So this is a quick little section I wanted

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to do to remind us of that
despite all the things that...

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Not despite, but keep context.

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So what happens is As a coach,
as coaches, CJ and I are going to share

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with you concepts that we know will
help you play amazing pickleball.

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We know that these concepts,
big picture, will get the job done.

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They're effective strategies.

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That said, you got to be happy.

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You should be happy when
you play pickleball.

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What I was reminded of was one of our team

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members played a lot of
volleyball back in the day.

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Still plays a little bit, but more
volleyball player before pickleball.

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She just loves jumping for balls.

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We joke with her about it, like when she's
hitting a volley that's maybe around her

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shoulder, around her head,
she still jumps up to hit it.

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Now, mechanically, is
that the best thing to do?

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The answer is no, but who cares?

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We were talking about it,
and she said, You know what?

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It just makes me happy.
I was like, great reminder.

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If it makes you happy, please,
by all means, continue doing it.

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As long as you understand why you're doing

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what you're doing, continue
doing what you want to do.

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The other things are like, if you want to

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have a hard serve, you want to learn a
kickout serve, you want to learn how to

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spend the ball because it
makes you happy, that's fine.

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Now, if you're doing those things because
you think they're strategically sound or

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because they're going to improve your
play, then you're on the wrong path.

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As long as you're clear on why you're
doing it, don't lose sight of being happy

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and adding things to your game that
simply make you happy and make you smile.

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All right, let's dive into
the heavy subject today.

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Tim Galloway wrote this
book, Inner Game of Tennis.

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I want to say it might have been in the
'70s, '80s, I'm pretty sure, the latest,

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but it was a seminal book on the mental
game, on on any sports psychology.

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If there was anything going on back then,
it was super academic and all that stuff.

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Tim Galloway wrote this book,
The Inner Game of Tennis.

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It became so popular that it became like
the inner game, the inner game of

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everything, inner game of
golf, the inner game of this.

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I think they have an institute
called The Inner Game.

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Anyway, one of the concepts that Tim
developed, and he articulates in the book,

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which I would suggest is
probably the most powerful concept or a

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couple of most powerful concepts in the
book, is this idea of self-one, self-two.

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Basically, it's explained like
this, so you can understand it.

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You're playing a match and you get an easy

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volley to put away, and bam,
slam it into the net or hit it 5 feet out

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whatever your tendency is when
you miss those type of shots.

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What happens a lot of times is there's a

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voice that pipes up and says, Tony,
man, I can't believe you screwed that up.

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How did you mess that shot?

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What Tim says is Tim says, Well,
hold on a second here.

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What's going on?
Who's talking to who?

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There's only Tony on the court.

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Tony is the one who missed the shot.

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He says, You know what?

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It's going to be helpful if we start
thinking about these two selves He calls

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these two parts of our self
as self-one and self-two.

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Self-one, he calls the talking self.

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That's the self that
is the one that said to you, Tony, or said

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to me, Hey, Tony, How
did you miss that volley?

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And then self-two is the doer.

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So self-two is a part of you
that actually hit the volley.

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The part of you that hit
the ball is self-two.

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The part of you that talked
about it is self-one.

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And the basic premise, I'm going to
give you a real rough sketch here.

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If you want to know more, I can't
recommend the book highly enough to you.

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If you're on a serious mental
journey, the book is really good.

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I'll tell you where to get it at the end

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of this section because I'm going to give
you a place where you can get a lot of

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things that will help you with
your game, including this book.

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But the The idea is this.

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So self-two is the part of you that

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actually does the things that
gets you through the day.

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If you want to think about it,
think about self-to this way.

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So this morning, you woke up at some point
and you got out of bed and If you're my

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age, you probably went straight to the
bathroom, or you went to get a cup of

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coffee or a glass of water, whatever
you do the first thing in the morning.

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Self-two did that for you.

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Self1 didn't really need
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It's not like you need to get up in a bed

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and go like, Gee, I need
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Where's the bathroom in my house?

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Self2 just autopilots you from your
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At some point, Self1 will activate, Well,
what do I have on the calendar today?

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Or whatever.

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But Self2 is doing a
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Another way that we like to explain it is

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when you get somewhere in your car,
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you put out your left leg first, probably,
if you're the driver, and then your right

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leg, and then you stand up,
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Left, right, left, right, left, right.

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But you don't really have
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It seems silly, right?

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To go left foot, right
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So that's self-two.

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Self-two can do a lot of stuff.

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If you think about it in the pickleball

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context, think of someone who you know
who's never played a racket sport before,

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never held any ping-pong paddle,
tennis racquet, racquet ball, nothing.

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You take that friend of yours out to the

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pickleball court with you, and you hand
them a pickleball paddle and a ball,

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and you say, I'd like for you to
hit the ball in that direction.

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You point to the other side of the court.

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As you say, I want you to make
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It may take them a few tries, but without
any additional instruction action, your

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friend is probably going to be able to hit
a ball over the net into the other court

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with no training, no hold the
paddle like this, no nothing.

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That is self-two.

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The key takeaway here is
self-two is extremely capable.

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Self-two is extremely and
capable and can do a lot for you.

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Now, what happens when we play
is self-one gets involved.

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Self-one is not a bad thing.

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Self-one can be a bad thing.
We'll talk about that.

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But self-one is not by itself,
just by its nature, a bad thing.

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In this situation, let me go
back to the missed volley.

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There is a positive role
for self-one to play.

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I went over, I missed the volley.

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So that's self-two missing the volley.

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It's fine for self-one to tell self-two,
Hey, your paddle angle when you hit the

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ball might not have been correct, or
maybe you didn't take a full step over.

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We have a video coming out on the
IntuPickle channel on YouTube,

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probably the next few weeks,
but it's already canned.

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We're just waiting for it to be published.
That has to do with that.

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It has to do with not taking
a step over missing bolleys.

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That's a frame of self-one
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Because then what happens is then you can

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correct the error that
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The danger with self-one is when it keeps
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The example, going back to the Bali, is

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starts off by, Tony,
I can't believe you missed that bolleys.

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Fine.

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Then it says, Tony,
you're an awful big wall player, or, Tony,

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you suck, or, Tony, you always missed
that shot, something like that.

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Not helpful, just negative and damaging.

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Then it keeps going.

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Tony, all of your friends laughing
at you for missing that shot.

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Your partner can't believe
you missed that shot.

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I can't believe you missed that shot.

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How can you show your face
around here and play like that?

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You don't deserve to play on this court.

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I know I'm going extreme, but I'm going to

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tell you something, this is not unheard of
for pick-a-ball players out there to have

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a self-one that just keeps
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Cj talks about it being like

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a three-year-old with a knife
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That's the danger of self-one.

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Just being aware that you have this

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self-one, self-two is very empowering
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you'll find yourself having this
conversation, and then you

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can use your conscious mind to say, Well,
self-one, what's happening here?

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What's going on?

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Is this really necessary?

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You can recognize why the negativity is

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happening because it's a self-one
that's criticizing self-two.

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Now, I'm going to give you one
way to strengthen self-one.

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There's a lot of different techniques, and
the Inter game of Tennis will give you

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some techniques on how to
quiet self-one down while you're playing.

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But one way that you can get self-one
under control more is to work on self-two.

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And what I mean by that is
if you practice, right?

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So let's say that you've hit
that same volley a million times.

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Same exact volley, right?
A million times.

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Self-two knows what to do.

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Self-one is probably going
to shut the heck up, right?

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Because self-one goes, self-two
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Now, if you've only hit two of these
before and you're nervous about it and

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you're unsure about the shot and whatever,
that gives Self-1 a lot more power, right?

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Self-1 says, I don't know about Self-2.

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If Self-2 is ready for
this for prime time yet.

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So Self-1 is going to be a lot more

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willing to opine about
what's going on out there.

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That's an overall technique that you can
use to manage your self-one, self-two.

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But I'll tell you that just knowing that
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yourself by yourself,
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Hey, self, one, what's going on?

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Hopefully, that'll help you with that
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That's something that we really dive into
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as a pickleball player, because you're
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We need to understand the principal actor,
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I told you that I would I'll
tell you where to get the book.

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If you go to betterpickleball.

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You'll find a bunch of resources on there,

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including the mental
The mental books, right?

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The mental training books that we
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Tennis, Coach Pete's great book, Compete,
Learn, Honor, a really good book by Josh

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Watz, Whiteskin, I think,
winning other reason on there.

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Sports Psychology for Dummies by Dr.

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There's a link to an Amazon
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affiliate relationship on that page,
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Like I know, you're paying the same exact
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our podcast, our YouTube channels,
everything that we're able to offer

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without cost to to pickleball
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There's a whole bunch of links on there.

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Anytime you use one of those links,
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If you need a paddle or something
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Again, nothing changes for you, but it

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helps the podcast and it helps
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If you can use that, that
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if you get a minute to rate and review
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shoutouts, so we'll read
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We did it in the last podcast.

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Let us know how we're doing, and we'll

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All right, in the RIF, I want
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I gave you four or five
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I told you that we're writing one.

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mental game, and about some pro
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It's very well run by our
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We are on top of that.

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almost like professional trolls,
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Life's short.
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read the whole post about the pros and
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But one of the comments was by a gentleman
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I don't know what the point of him is, but
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end of the post, I said, There's no
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And the comment was, I do believe there
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No idea.
Larry's his name.

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It's public.
It's on Facebook.

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No idea what Larry's talking about there.

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If it's not a trolling thing or some
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I like this idea of there's
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I would suggest to you that most of us
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The power of the mental
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I can't properly communicate it to you.

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In the few minutes I have
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I may not have the words to communicate
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But I can tell you, personally, it
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It's changed my life in terms
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I would suggest you that it is the
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If you had 10 minutes,
and you could spend those 10 minutes on

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working on your third shot drop, or on
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that's all you have is 10 minutes,
work on your mental game.

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Because not only will you get the benefits

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of playing better, however
you're hitting the balls, you're going to

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play better because your mind will be
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and you're just going to feel better
and you're going to live a better life.

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Look at some of the resources
that I mentioned to you.

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Go to that page that I mentioned to that.

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It's in the show notes.

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Find a resource that calls out to you.
Write something.

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You go, You know what?

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This is what I like
the cover of this book.

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Any of the books that are on
the list are going to help you.

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I like the cover of this book.
Boom.

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Easy decision.

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Start reading that book, and then when

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you're done with that read the next book
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There is no such thing as
too much mental training.

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All right, that's it
for this week's podcast.

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I hope, again, you're having a great week.

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I hope you're getting
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Be on the look out for emails from us

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about our upcoming summit and
some additional academy courses.

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for you, you can always reach out
to us, support at betterpickupall.

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We're happy to be a part of your

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pickleball journey, and we look
forward to doing more with you.

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I hope you have a great week,
and I'll see you next time.