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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,
the podcast dedicated to

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your pickleball improvement.

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It's the podcast that
focuses on your mind.

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My name is Tony Roig.

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I am the host of this weekly podcast.

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It is a pleasure to be with you this week.

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I'm excited about the subject this week.

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I was reminded of it on a video that came
across my personal feed, my algorithm, the

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stuff that I get to see
because I enjoy that stuff.

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It reminded me of a really important
concept which has to do with gatekeeping

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our cells, gatekeeping our information.

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Specifically, this creator was talking
about gatekeeping information

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and taking back your attention.

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The content creator is in the science
space, a gentleman named Hank Green, who's

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a brilliant interesting concept about
science, shares a lot

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of just knowledge about science.

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I've followed him for
a number of years now.

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This one caught my attention because he
was talking about the algorithm and how

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it basically dictates for you what it...

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It replaces your agency over time.

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In other words, the algorithm
knows you better than you know yourself.

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We make jokes about it, but that's
the world we're heading into.

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Amazon, for instance, supposedly knows
more about what you want

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than what you think you want.

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His idea was to
retake take your attention.

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And he used the term intentionality.

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And if you listen to this podcast, you
know that's a subject that's near and dear

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to our hearts
in the better pickleball ecosystem,

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of which pickleball therapy is a part.

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And so that caught my attention as well.

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So I'm going to talk about intentionality
in a minute, but let's go through a little

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bit of this idea of gatekeeping and how we
can use that to best

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enjoy our journey together.

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And then in the RIF, I'm going to share
with you an event that's coming up that

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we're going to talk about information
about 2025 that will help you out.

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All right, let's talk first about
gatekeeping our information,

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what comes into our brains.

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Because a lot of times when we're
exposed to information in

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an area that maybe we're not sure what the
right answer is, like pickleball can be

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sometimes, we will err on the side
of letting the information in.

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We'll allow the information to come in.

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Sometimes it's because we're just curious,
sometimes it's because we just heard it.

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Sometimes it's because
we hear it, but we're not really sure how

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to
exclude it, how to discern that it's not

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necessarily correct, complete, or for us.

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Those are the three elements that
we look at in terms of information.

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There's a couple of different areas that I
think it's important to keep an eye out

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One is YouTube or any
social media algorithm.

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Youtube is still the principal
one in our space in pickleball.

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Eventually, it may switch to Instagram or
TikTok or something else,

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but right now it's YouTube.

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So it's not that YouTube is doing anything
wrong, but YouTube doesn't

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know you specifically.

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Youtube knows that you like pickleball,
and YouTube knows that you interact

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with videos that are about pickleball.

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The The other thing it knows is it
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For instance, a common video
that is very popular is serves.

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We don't do a lot of serve videos in our
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not that serves aren't important, but we
subscribe to a very fundamentally sound

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way of dealing with the serve, so we're
not going to try and take you in these

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directions of doing all these
fancy serves and things like that.

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We don't have that heavy presence in the
serve space, other content creators do,

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and this is not a criticism of them.

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They're doing what...

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Everybody's playing the same game, so
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hamster wheel, if you will.

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You have YouTube
feeding videos that the crowd likes, The

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crowd likes serve, so YouTube feeds serve.

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That means content creator
gets feedback, serve is good.

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So content creator creates content
based on serve and so on and so forth.

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Just the wheel keeps
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So What happens is it's
this self-reinforcing system, right?

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And it can take our eye off the ball,
if you will, pun intended, I guess.

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It can take away our ability to keep

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ourselves focused on what really matters

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in our play, what's going to actually help
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areas where we're basically pulled off in
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going to be the best for our game.

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The content creator that I mentioned
earlier, Hank Green, he was referring to

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the idea of getting back your attention in
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delivery, general information.

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Specific to what we're working on here in
terms of pickleball,

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it's taking back your attention from
the algorithms in the pickleball space or

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being at least cognizant of the fact
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was fed into your ecosystem by the
algorithm does not mean that that is

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something that is made for you, does not
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for you, and doesn't mean that it's
something you should go pursue.

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And so algorithm is a really big one
because of the information

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age that we live in nowadays.

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So You just got to be cognizant of that.

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And I haven't done a lot in AI yet, but I
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bit in Gemini and ChatGPT,
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So just trying to see what's possible, see
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players, things like that, just get ideas.

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And I got to tell you something,
I am not impressed by AI so far.

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I tested it with several different things
and just try to get information from it.

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And it is wrong at a level
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I asked it some specific pickleball
questions, and the answers were

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just way wrong.

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Then when I asked AI about the answers
being wrong, they would just

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say, I'm sorry about that.

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And And then I correct it and it would
be like, okay, so it would just take...

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That would take my answer, which in this
case is fine because I'm

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giving a good information, but
who knows what's going in there?

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You just have to be really cognizant of...

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You have to be careful, I I'd say, of the
information coming your way from any a

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computer platform, whether it's YouTube or
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even AI in terms of that.

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Another area that you can use this idea
of gatekeeping is friends at the courts.

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Because your friends at the courts,
I'm sure they mean well,

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the other players, they do.

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They're not trying to lead you astray.

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But I hear a lot of information out there
when I'm on the courts, and a

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lot of it's It's just wrong.

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But they'll swear by it.

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They'll swear that
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Ask yourself, how do they know
the right way to do it?

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Even if, let's assume that they're playing
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they're higher level in that facility,
they probably don't really

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understand the game that well.

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That's just the reality of the situation.

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I shouldn't say they don't understand the
game well, but you got to play the odds.

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The odds are that they haven't spent the
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way that, for instance, CJ and I do at
Better Pickleball, where we spend

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literally every day of
every week doing this.

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That's what allows us to then share I'm
giving you information that

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we know is good information.

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Again, I don't want to make it sound
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What I want to do is help you protect
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bad information, because bad
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That's the danger.

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If it was like, what song do you like best
or what movie is the best or

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whatever, I mean, whatever.
That's no big deal.

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That's not going to impact you.

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But if you hear something at your courts
or get a YouTube video that feeds you some

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information that is either incorrect or
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partially understood, but not in context
and things like that, it can

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really mess up your game.

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And one example I'll give you is
this happened several years ago.

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There was a player who did a video, and he
referred to the neutral dink

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as a dumb dink.

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I know that's sometimes referred to as the
dead dink, but he referred

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to it as the dumb dink.

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So he basically layered another
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And so you're sitting there, you being
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sitting there watching this, and
you get a really good pro player

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saying, Don't hit dumb dinks, right?
Who wants a dumb dink?

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So dink like this.

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So what does that tell you?

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I shouldn't do that, right?

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And so why would you ever want
to hit a shot that's a dumb dink?

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Now, I can show you, not just tell you, I
can show you footage of the same pro

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player hitting the exact same shot
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in his games, in his matches.

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And I don't mean in demonstrations, I
mean in metal matches in the pro level.

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And I
think I understand what he was trying

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to say, but that's not what he said.

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What he said was this dink is
bad, but he does it.

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So it doesn't...

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How do you figure that out?

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Unless you suss through it and you can
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isn't actually accurate, given the way
that he actually plays and given the state

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of the game and given how
you should play Piggerball.

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So that's what,
again, folks who know the game as well as

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CJ and I do and the coaches of the better
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I'll talk about the event and the RIF, but
whether it's coming to something like that

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or coaching with us or watching our stuff,
listening to our stuff,

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it will help you get information that's
actually more relevant, more

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thought through, more curated.

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We are definitely very careful of what we
say because we understand that there can

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be misinterpretations
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Again, in terms of your information
receipt, use some gatekeeping.

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If it's friends at the courts, ask
yourself, why am I listening to a player

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who may be at my level,
even if they're a half-level higher and

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things like that, they're not
a pickleball professional.

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A pickleball professional in
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Why am I listening to them?

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If the YouTube algorithm is feeding you
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much attention to this stuff?
It's just YouTube.

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Youtube's objective is, and they don't
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their objective is to get as many clicks
and views on their content as they can.

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They want interactivity
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They're sending you stuff that they
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It doesn't mean it's going
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I thought about that.
That was pretty good.

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Anyway, So just gatekeep your information.

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Then the other way I want you to think
about it, and it's corollary to that, is

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gatekeeping your journey.

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So what thing is information?

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And you can decide.

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If you want to watch a video, 10 tips in
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It's your time, so you
do what you want with it.

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But the next thing would be, I'm actually
going to do some of these things that I'm

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seeing on this video
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Now you're really doubling down on the
potential harm that the potentially wrong

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or incomplete or out of context or not
right for you information can have.

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I'll give you just a real-world example.

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Names will be with health
to protect the innocent.

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But a friend of mine working on a shot,
and so I asked, Where did

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that come from, this shot?
Because it was out of the blue.

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It was a YouTube video.

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A YouTube video came across, and
so started working on that shot.

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Explored it a little bit with the player
about thinking about it

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and things like that.
The only rationale was saw a video.

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And as we explored it, I think the player
started to understand that maybe it's not

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really that great of a shot because...
Anyway, there's several reasons.

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But basically, it's just
not a shot that that player needed.

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And there are other areas that were much
more valuable for the player to work on.

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And that's an example of gatekeeping your
journey, meaning think about yourself,

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think about what's going on with your
game, and then

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try and see if you can figure out the best
thing for you to work not based on

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what you heard from an outside source.

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And this is where a concept called
framework can really help you.

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The reason framework is so powerful as a
concept in pickleball is because

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it allows you to now know the story.

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So you know the story of pickleball, you
know yourself, you know your skills, your

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background, your
strengths and your weaknesses.

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And so now you're able to go, Okay, this
is what I need, given the framework of the

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game, given the objectives I'm trying to
accomplish, this is what's going to help

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me the most play the sport of pickleball.

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So gatekeeping your journey is as
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information, perhaps even more important.

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If you're letting information in,
at least gatekeep the journey.

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And then last concept before we get to the
rip that I want to run down for a minute

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or so is, don't lose
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Intentionality is a very broad concept.

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It has applications at the
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When you think about it,
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Micro is I intend
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It means I know that if I warm up, I'm
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injury, all the benefits of warming up.

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What I'm going to do is I'm
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That's an intentional life by you.

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Intentionality can also go as micro as I'm
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intended trajectory that I know, and then
I basically Basically, then try

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and execute on that intentionality.

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It's that micro, the height
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Then you can think about it very broadly.

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That could be personally for your body,
things like, for instance, I need to work

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on my strength, so I'm going to
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That's an intentional act, right?

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Getting up and going to the gym or picking
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at home, bodyweight exercises
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That's all intentionality.

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In this context, what it means is being
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every part of your pickle ball.

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In this case, we're
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We're talking about your
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So it's really being super intentional in
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of your pickleball relationship.

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So when you see a YouTube video come
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Do I want to watch the video?
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Why am I watching the video?

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And then be intentional with
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Don't just click watch because it's an
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YouTube put it in front of you.

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So that's the concept of intentionality
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And then let me share with you.

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This is the RIF piece, so we're
going to flow right into the RIF.

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Let me share with you an event that
we have coming up on February second.

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We're calling it State of Play.

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It's an absolutely free event.

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Cj and I felt very strongly about sharing
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we decided to make this an
open event to the public.

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We're going to to talk
about what's going on with pickle ball in

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terms of some strategies that we're
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have questions about.

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Big picture things like the hard game,
soft game conversation, talk about paddle

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developments and how that's going to
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A couple of rules things that are causing
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going to try and shine a light on.

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Again, it's an open event.

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There is, however, you need to get a
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seats, and we expect this to get full.

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These rooms that you have only have
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We're going to provide tickets.

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Anyway, you need to get a ticket for it.

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It's on February 22nd, I believe
that's a Saturday or Sunday.

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I can't remember exactly,
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We wanted to allow for as
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From your information, we know that you
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So we said, Okay, let's do
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And then Anyway, so get your ticket.

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I'll put a link down in the show notes,
so you can just go to betterpickleball.

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com, and there'll be a link on there, I'm
sure, on the homepage to

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get your ticket for this event.

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Join CJ and me for about 45 minutes
to an hour on the state of play.

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We'll answer some questions
if we have time for that.

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Anyway, that's the event, and I hope that
you guys can join us so that you can get

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accurate information from pickleball
professionals because this is what we do.

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Try and share with you the right
information to help you then make

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decisions that are right for your game.

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

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I hope you enjoyed it.

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I hope you're enjoying this series of
podcasts that we started 2025 with.

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If you're enjoying the podcast,
consider rating and reviewing it.

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As always, it just helps
us reach other players.

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We like hearing from you and we enjoy the
feedback, but the number one reason we ask

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for this is so that we can reach other
players who may benefit from the podcast.

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As always, if you enjoy the podcast, share
it with your friends, particularly in this

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case, if you have a friend who's out there
on the YouTube hamster wheel or just

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listens to every little thing that
every player at the court shares with

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them, then share this podcast with them to
help them maybe get off

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that hamster wheel.

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And then I hope to see at least some of
you during our state of

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play on February 22nd.

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Have a great week, and I'll see you in
the next episode of Pigable Therapy.

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Be.