Are you struggling with consistency? Are you struggling with consistency in your tennis game? Do you find yourself hitting great shots one minute, only to fall apart under pressure the next? Consistency isn’t hitting 100 balls in a row Contrary to popular belief, consistency isn’t about hitting 100 balls back and forth down the middle. …

Have you ever been told to “swing harder” or “follow through over your shoulder”? There’s a good chance the advice may not be grounded in science. Here are 5 lies most tennis players think are true: 1. Swinging fast makes the ball go fast To hit fast, you need to swing fast. It sounds right, but it isn’t…

If you work in product design or have the opportunity to lead a group of people, one of the most important qualities you can possess is your ability to clearly visualize something called the “end state”. What is an End State The end state is a destination in the future, you are trying to lead…

One can think of the process of hitting a shot into 3 stages: Shot anticipation. Shot selection. Shot execution. Anticipation Shot anticipation is your ability to as quickly as possible predict the spin, speed and height of the ball. The faster you can anticipate the ball, the more time you will…

Feedback is key to improvement. Objective feedback is rare. Your mind is subjective The human mind is an incredible distortion machine. How you think you are playing is often quite different from how you are actually playing. You might think you hit a fast forehand. You might think you are playing badly or playing great. The challenge is your perception isn’t accurate. People are biased You could ask a friend for their opinion. Although they will be more objective than you, every person has their own, often subconscious biases.

I stopped by a park and young man holding a Wilson racket caught my eye. He couldn’t have been older than high school age. He wore a gray, Addias shirt drenched in sweat. His blue shorts matched his shoes like a college tennis uniform, except it wasn’t. …

Overnight success is mostly myth Most of the overnight success stories are actually journeys that take a career’s length. Roblox was a 15 year “overnight success”. So was Shopify. Amazon and Netflix were even longer. The real length of those journeys began long before the first versions of those products were even launched. Mastery takes time Most people…

I’m not a surfer, so the following is based on my perception of surfing. I believe it can be a useful analogy for intrapreneurship. Intrapreneurship is the practice of creating new businesses or initiatives, but within an existing business. For example, creating Alexa within Amazon. Surfers don’t spend most of…

What if you could predict the future? What if you had invested $10,000 in GameStop stock when it was $4. The stock would go on to hit $400 a share, turning your $10,000 into $1 million. But was your decision brilliant or risky? The series of events that came together…