2020-09-20

this weekend

This was a good weekend. I did a decent amount of exercise (climbing on Saturday, ~4 miles run on Sunday along the Thames) and had a good time talking to people over Zoom and at brunch. It felt really good, apart from when I thought about how this is not productive.

tennis

"Almost anyone can learn to play a game of tennis in just a single afternoon if they don't try too hard"

This video is incredible. Skip to 1:39 if you just want to see the clip where the action happens. Timothy Gallwey, the author of "The Inner Game of Tennis" teaches a lady with no prior knowledge of tennis how to play in twenty minutes.

After the clip, Alan Kay mentions some key points of "The Inner Game of Tennis". I won't go over them here, but it's worth watching the video to learn about them. These principles could easily apply to other difficult activities. Mr Gallwey is well aware of this - the "Inner Game of..." series includes books on Golf, Work, Music and Stress.