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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,
the podcast dedicated to

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your pickle improvement.

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I hope you're having a great week.

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This week, we are in the
midst of our spring boot camp.

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It's a lot of fun.

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It's always fun to figure out
better ways to deliver the content that's

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actually going to help pickleball players.

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And that's what we're going to do in this
boot camp, is we're going to provide some

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help with control controlling
shot trajectory primarily so that players

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can enjoy a better play experience.

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In this process, it got
me thinking about control.

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Here we're going, during the boot camp, I
should say, we're going to go

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deep into control of a shot.

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And that's important, knowing how to
control a shot, knowing how to control the

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action as much as you can when you're
playing, where you exercise

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control during games.

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But then I started thinking bigger picture
about this concept of control and agency,

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and that's what I want to
cover in today's podcast.

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It's the concept of control and agency as
it pertains to your overall journey

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as a pickleball player, but
also just as a human being.

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I'm going to share with you during our
conversation today, I'll share with you

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about my own journey, about my own journey
as a pickleball player now, as an athlete.

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I used to play tennis before this
and what my journey has been inside this

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sphere, inside the mental sphere.

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And then, and I'm going to leave you with
a quote, really good quote that a friend

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of mine sent me that I
think will really help you.

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It's actually a quote that had to do with
golf, but I think it really applies to...

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It will nicely tie everything up.

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As we move into the podcast,
if you happen to be hearing this podcast

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right when it drops and you're
interested in the pickleball system.

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The course is open now.

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If you know, our courses only open usually
two times, sometimes three times,

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usually two times per year.

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So if you've been thinking about it, this
is a great time to get involved with that.

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Sometimes it gets a little confusing
out there because we have a boot camp.

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And then the boot camp, the idea of the
boot camp, or part of the idea of the boot

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camp is to allow players to come in from
the outside, who haven't studied this

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before, and they get to see what it's
all about and a taster, if you will.

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And so then if they like that, then
they're given an opportunity to join the

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pickleball all system, if they so choose.

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But the pickleball all system is our
big course that we have every year.

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So if that's something of
interest, you check that out.

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All right, let me dive
into this idea of control.

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And it's something that we've been doing
this podcast for a few years now, and

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we've covered a ton of subjects,
a ton of areas about the game.

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But I'm not sure that we have an episode
specifically on this topic, because

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I guess for me, when I was doing the
podcast, it always seemed implicit, right?

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That baked in, that we...

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Of course, we have agency, right?

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Of course, we have control over our lives
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we want to do with it.

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But I don't think that we really apply
that a lot of times in this area.

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And let me give you the way that I'm
thinking about it, the

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way I'm framing it out.

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So obviously, you're listening to
this podcast, Who picked the podcast?

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You did.
I appreciate that, and that's great.

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But fantastic.

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But it's your decision, your control, your
agency to pick this podcast

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to listen to right now.

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The last time you went out to eat,
hopefully you picked something

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on the menu that you wanted.
So you pick these things.

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But what happens is sometimes when things
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we sometimes externalize those things.

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It's like we lack
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Sometimes it's bad partners, unlucky
situation, bad call, whatever,

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things like that.

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Our mental journey can also feel sometimes
like it's outside of our control, outside

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of our agency, because it's just too big.

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It's like too much stuff
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But the reality is that at
the end of the day, we can decide

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how we navigate this
process, how we navigate the...

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Not just situations, because for instance,
going back to, let's say you're upset when

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you lose and ask you why you're upset,
instead of going to something else,

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you can just put perspective on it.
You can say, You know what?

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The perspective here really is,
I can feel a little bit upset, that's

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fine, but let me grab the reins.

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Before this wagon starts going down the
path like the horses lose control in this

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going crazy, let me grab the reins of it a
little bit because I can apply a

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perspective to it because I have
control over this situation.

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And if you want to go deep on it or
a little bit broader than this.

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The Buddhist talk about it, the Stoaks
talk about it, things like that.

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But basically, the idea is that
I can't control events.

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I can't control all events.

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Things will happen, good, some
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But I can't control what?

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How I react to those events.

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I can control how I
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and how I then react to those events.

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For example, you could make the decision
not to let certain things into your mind.

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That is your decision, whether it comes
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come into your mind.
You have control over that.

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And once they come into your mind, then
you can assign certain values to them.

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And then third tier, I guess, would be
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you've already had a reaction.
So let's work that through a second.

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So let's talk about
winning and losing in pickleball, since

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that's the focus that we have in this
podcast, the podcast for your

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pickleball mind, as we say.

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When you think about the
win and loss, the first thing you

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can do is not let it in your mind.

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What I mean by that is it's just
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If you think about it, there's a lot of
things in life that you don't

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consider in your decision making.

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But there's other things you decide to.

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You decide to let into
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So
in this case, you just say, okay, winning

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and losing, the scores don't matter to me.

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And obviously it takes
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But once you work on it, then eventually
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don't even hear the score anymore.

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You're just like, is it
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First server, second server,
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Whatever.
Score doesn't matter to me.

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So that's number one.

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Number two is the score
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How do I deal with it?

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And then maybe it's just a data point.

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It's just, okay, the numbers I have in my
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going to make or break me.

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They're not going to change my
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That's another way of dealing with it.

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Now you've led it into your ecosystem,
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the information, with the data
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Another way, and Let me just, before I
move on to the next one, let me just tell

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you what you're trying to avoid is you're
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basically hijacking your mind, hijacking
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good, things like that, feeling upset.

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That's what you're trying to
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Obviously, if you do the first one, which
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into your mind, then you won't have an
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it's not even in there.

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Second one is, let's see if we
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The third one is,
you've had an adverse reaction, meaning

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you've allowed the wins
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They've affected you negatively now.

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You don't feel good, you're upset,
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the negative feeling is.

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But now you're able navigate that and
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Meaning you're able to then apply the
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perspective prospectively, right?

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Or I'm sorry, retrospectively.

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So you're able to apply the perspective
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I recognize what's happening.

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I'm getting down on myself.

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They say you start asking yourself
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did we lose that last match?
I'm not playing well today.

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Or you start beating
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You're able to, again, grab the reins of
the of the wagon, of the horse's reins,

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and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's relax
here a second, and then apply perspective

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retrospectively to help you unwind
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Those are three different ways that you
can exercise control over your processes.

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And then bigger picture,
it's exercising control over your

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journey, over your journey as
in the mental side of the game.

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And that includes
listening to this podcast.

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Kudos to you for listening to the podcast.

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We continue to try and reach additional
players, and we do our best to do that.

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And so we know that it resonates with some
players, and other players don't have

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time for this, and I respect that.

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But kudos to you for taking a few minutes
from your day and assigning

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it to this process.

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I would suggest you, depending on where
you're at in your journey, maybe you

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need to devote a little more time.

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Think about it.

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It's your decision at the end
of the day, but think about it.

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Is that something that
you would benefit from?

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Whether it's picking up book.

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I think I've mentioned this before,
but I'm going to mention it again.

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The book that got me started on this whole
path was now my friend and mentor, Dr.

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Peter Scales, Coach Pete's Book, Mental
and Emotional Training for Tennis,

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Compete, Learn, Honor.
You can forget the tennis part.

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It's the same principles.

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But Compete, Learn, Honor really is a key
foundation to my thinking on this journey.

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That's a really good book.

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And there's other good books, The
Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Galway.

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There's The Art of Learning by Josh
Whets, Whetskin, I think it is.

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All those books are on...
If you go to betterpickleball.

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Com under resources, there's
a series of books there.

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You're welcome to use those
links I got the books.

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But anyway, so that's a way to
continue going deeper in your journey.

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And the question for you at the end of
the day is, how important is this to you?

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When I say this, I mean
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How important is it for you to continue
to grow in the mental side of things.

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And remember that when you grow in
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pickleball, what you're learning
extends well beyond pickleball.

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It extends well beyond just the court
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Those principles that you learn and you
work on, or you're going to take off the

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court and be able to work
on off the court as well.

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So exercise your agency.

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And let me pivot now the story
I promised you about my journey.

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That's what happened to me.

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I came from tennis.

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I played tennis since I can remember,
since I could walk almost, and pivoted to

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pickleball in 2015 to 16, that time frame.

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But I've always played some
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Took some gaps here and there in
adulthood and when life happened stuff.

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But I did not have a positive
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When I was younger, I
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When I played pickleball,
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I did all the things, right?

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And got upset at myself, got down
after losses, the normal, the gamut.

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If it's happening to you, it's
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And so about four years ago, and I
actually, to be honest with you, I cannot

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really remember the
impetus for it anymore.

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Maybe I got to go to my old podcast
to see how it That's how it started.

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But I know that I was
exposed to Coach Pete's book.

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I started reading it.
I started thinking it.

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Perhaps it was coaching, probably,
now that I think about it.

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Becoming a coach later in life
made me think about these things in a

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different light, because
I'm trying to help players, and I'm seeing

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them players struggle, and so I'm thinking
about it, and then I start

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thinking about it for myself.

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And so anyway, I've been on this journey
for, seriously, about four,

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four and a half years.

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I can tell you that my approach to
life has changed given this approach.

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And obviously, my pickleball
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I still compete.
I go out there, I battle.

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I still get upset at myself if I
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If you're a system student, you know that
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I'll lose rallies.
Losing rallies is fine.

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That's part of the deal.

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But I don't want to hit the net
because I have control over that.

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But that's another We'll
get a conversation.

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But anyway, my overall interaction with
the sport has improved

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significantly over the years.

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And so what I would suggest you is there's
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same for you if you so choose.

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If you choose to
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the entire process of
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This is that athletic pillar that we talk
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inside all of our coaching, the three
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athletic pillar, Body and mind.

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In fact, I have teed up
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I'm going to be talking about the other
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overlooked that when we're
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Super important, the mind.

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We can't forget the body, and I'm going
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All right, before we sign off,
I'm going to read you this.

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My friend David, who's
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He's been working on his
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tell you that
I've seen a great improvement in him, and

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I think he feels a great improvement
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a session, regardless of the results.

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So this is about golf, but just
replace golf with pickleball.

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I'm going to read it the way it is, but
you can replace golf with pickleball

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on it, and it works great.

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And thanks, David, for sharing this.

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So no one cares the The title of it is
No One Cares What Your Score Was, Ever.

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Love it.

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I had the most miserable round
I played in years yesterday.

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Dropped three straight into the water on
my 90-yard approach on the third hole.

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Had a 10 on two separate holes
on my way to a I didn't get mad.

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I enjoyed the day with my playing partners
because I realized that no one, not my

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wife, not my playing partners, not my best
friends, no one cares about my golf score.

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I could shoot a 72 or a 120, and my life
will not change an Iota in either case.

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Get out there, enjoy the game, savor
the great drives and flushed iron shots.

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Let the mistakes roll off your back.

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Have fun because if you're not, you're
spending a lot of money in mental

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language for no reason at all.

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And that's a fantastic way of framing it.

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I assume it's a...

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I don't know if it's a man or a woman.

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It's that player exercising
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process and how they Whether it's
a 72 or 120, I'm going to be fine.

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No one else cares about it, so I'm
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Just a really positive way of doing it.

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So maybe take that quote with you next
time you're out there on the courts.

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That's this week's podcast.
I hope you enjoyed it.

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As always, if you enjoyed it,
consider rating and reviewing it.

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be nice, if you don't mind jumping
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And you can review whatever you want.

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I read on a prior podcast, I read a review
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What does it say?
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Hot air nonsense or something like that?
Whatever.

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I mean, whatever you feel like.
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We appreciate it.
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Remember, if you enjoy this podcast, and
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going to help them out, too.

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I hope you have a great week, and I will
see you next week for talking

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about the other half of that.

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Until then.