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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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It's the podcast with you in mind.

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This is a special episode of our podcast.

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It's a special episode where I wanted to talk about the

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three spheres of the Pickleball mind.

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This is an at the board special episode at the board

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means that I am literally standing in front of the board

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where I do the teaching from my classroom,

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right? My studio classroom,

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if you will.

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And so if you want to the benefits of the visual,

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check it out on YouTube as well.

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You'll get full benefit of listening to it on the podcast,

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so you don't have to run away right now and watch

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it on YouTube,

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but later on,

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if you wanna check it out on YouTube,

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you just look at Pickleball therapy on YouTube and you get

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to see it on the board displayed behind me.

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The, if you do go to the Pickleball therapy on YouTube,

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consider subscribing to the channel.

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It really helps us reach more players just like you who

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would benefit from this sort of and told training.

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So let's talk about the three spheres of Pickleball,

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how this all came to fruition.

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So, you know,

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as you know,

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we've been doing the Pickleball Therapy podcast for a number of

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years now.

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You know,

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if you've,

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if you've been following it for any period of time,

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you know,

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it's been three plus years of,

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of recording this podcast.

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It's been a fantastic journey for me personally as a,

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a human being and as a Pickleball player.

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It's helped me tremendously to be able to bring these podcasts

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to you,

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you know,

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in terms of my thinking and,

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and, and understanding a better understanding the,

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the mental side of Pickleball and frankly,

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the importance of it.

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I came from 40 some years of tennis,

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never really dealt with this stuff in tennis,

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just play tennis,

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just, you know,

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didn't really think about the mental side of tennis.

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I'm positive I left a lot,

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on the shelf,

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if you will,

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in terms of my tennis,

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in advancement,

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my tennis play,

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by not paying any time,

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any minds,

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right? Without not paying any mind to the mental part of

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tennis. But in Pickleball,

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I've been fortunate to have been exposed to it.

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coach Peter Scales is a great mentor to me and to

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CJ Johnson,

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my partner,

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my business partner,

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and she and Pete,

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coach Pete,

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his teachings have been,

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has changed,

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my, my life really,

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my Pickleball life and my life,

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I understand things better now.

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so the,

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the podcast has been a,

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a, a growth journey for me as a mental trainer and

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mental thinker about Pickleball.

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we wanted to then bring the,

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the teachings of the Pickleball therapy philosophy,

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if you will,

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in written form.

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over the past year or so,

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when working on a book and,

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and it started off as one book,

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and it's gonna end up being,

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looks like three volumes of books covering each one of the

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The three spheres of the Pickleball Mind.

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it just really crystallizes everything,

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right? And basically you're,

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you're starting to bring together different concepts from different,

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different teachers that I've had,

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right? Books I've read,

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folks I've dealt with,

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situations, I've,

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I've faced podcasts,

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concepts, things like that.

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it got me to thinking about the best way to organize

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the different parts and this for reason in terms fears,

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right? But the different areas or different parts of the mental

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aspect of our sport of Pickleball.

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there's not one,

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it's not one.

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right? 'cause what happens is,

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we end up like mashing all of it together.

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we'll read a book like The Inner Game of Tennis or

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like Coach Pete's book or,

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or like the Art of Learning for instance.

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books like that.

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okay, we've covered mental training,

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but the reality is we haven't,

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because there's a lot to it.

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that are different spheres that each cover different part of our

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mental relationship with the sport.

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And focusing on one's great,

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but if you want to be as complete as you can,

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and if you want to improve as a player,

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right? Because that's one of the spheres you want to focus

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on, understand that there's more than one and pay attention to

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particularly focusing on the ones that most are going to give

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give you some more thoughts on that during today's podcast.

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Now let's talk about the three spheres and,

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play and progress.

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So perspective is your big picture,

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that's relational,

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right? That's your relationship with Pickleball.

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you're gonna be like,

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that's what I understand to be mental training.

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they think mental training involves perspective is really big picture stuff.

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it's, it's,

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it's, and we use the term relationship with Pickleball.

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we think about playing Pickleball and that's fine,

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that's part of it.

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can strengthen that and we can strengthen our,

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our perspective or the way that we come at the game,

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the way that we interact with this game and that we're

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we want to be pragmatic too.

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I know players wanna play better,

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you're gonna play better.

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covers each one of these areas so that you have an

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which is mental and emotional training for tennis.

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his key tenet is compete dash learn,

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dash honor.

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that's his philosophy.

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right? But really it's a perspective builder,

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right? So that's perspective.

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play in progress.

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I will tell you that the from my money,

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the best bang for your buck is perspective.

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Play will help you play a little better.

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maybe drop some anxiety while you're playing.

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anxiety will goes away anyway.

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it pervades everything else.

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right? It's normal is that's what we think of,

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mental stuff is like mental toughness,

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mind of a champion,

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our mental framing or our mental mindset while we're in the,

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in the act of playing.

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around the time we're playing and during our game.

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that's that that mental sphere.

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The book that I like there is the Inner Game of

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Tennis by Tim Galloway is a really good book for play.

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He talks a lot about self oneself.

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and things like that.

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but I like his for play helps you focus on the

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court and some techniques like that.

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So play is a really important sphere as well.

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And then the third sphere.

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it probably does.

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I would say if you're listening to this podcast,

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you're probably not a casual player,

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but no matter what your relationship is pickle.

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right? What you want to do,

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perspective and player are always gonna be in play,

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pun intended,

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right? They're always gonna be active,

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right? The third sphere progress,

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that's an entirely different type of mental training because that one

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deals with your Pickleball journey,

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right? That's your journey as a Pickleball player in terms of

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your improvement.

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the Art of Learning.

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Josh Waitzkin is a prodigy chess player.

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in search of Bobby Fisher.

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He's the actual boy depicted in that movie.

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If you saw the movie.

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that requires its own kind of mental Thinking,

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right? His own mental approach.

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relationship with Pickleball,

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play your best and progress or improve as a player,

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you want to have all three spheres.

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that's where you have all three spheres.

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just remember that there are three spheres and we are trying

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we, in in our podcast,

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we are being more intentional ourselves,

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We're trying to be more intentional about making sure that we

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cover all three spheres with you as we come out with

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podcasts. So we'll have a podcast that'll cover maybe like perspective,

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right? That's Bowl of Ice Cream would be a good podcast

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on perspective,

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right? What's your play on play there?

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on, on focusing on the ball while you're playing that's really

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gonna help you maximize your mind while you're in the middle

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one that comes to mind would be the,

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the lifelong learning maybe is a good one there,

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that, that there's no,

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the, the mountain top thing where basically like there's always a

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mountain to climb.

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right? You can play Pickleball without climbing mountains,

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you can just play the way you play.

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That's fine.

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it's about understanding the journey of an improving Pickleball player and

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how you have to climb mountains and there's valleys and you

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plateau. So that's an example of three podcasts that cover the

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So as you think about yourself and your growth as a

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I highly recommend the books that I mentioned.

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if you can go to better Pickleball dot com,

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there's a resources tab,

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there's a link in there to an Amazon page that's an

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affiliate page,

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but the same price anyway.

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But it's an Amazon page.

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You can order any of those books on there.

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Obviously once our book's out comes out,

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we hope that you'll check out the book and,

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and you know,

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give it a,

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give it a read.

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I think you'll find it really helpful,

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especially on perspective.

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'cause that's the first volume of the book that's gonna come

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out is on perspective.

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to you.

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start with perspective with Coach Pete's book.

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That's gonna be a really good place to start.

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If you feel good about your perspective,

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you want a little bit of more help in terms of

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I think inter Game of Tennis can play great place to

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start. And if you just wanna understand the growth journey,

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have a big picture,

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view of growth and all that.

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Josh Watkin's book,

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the Art of Learning is a really good,

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really good resource for that.

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so those are the three spheres.

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I hope you enjoyed the presentation of the three spheres.

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It Helps you further under,

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you know,

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further develop or deepen your understanding of your mental process and

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your growth as a more complete,

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you know,

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Pickleball player.

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If you enjoyed the podcast,

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please consider rating and reviewing.

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It really helps us reach other players.

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And as always,

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please share the podcast with your friends.

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If you enjoyed the podcast,

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they probably will too.

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And if you're interested in the book,

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shoot us an email therapy at better Pickleball dot com and

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we'll start putting together a list of email addresses of folks

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who are interested in the book and we'll make sure that

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you know when it is available for pre-order so you can

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be one of the first to receive a copy of the

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book. I hope you have a great week this week and

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I'll see you this Friday for a regular episode of Pickleball

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Therapy.