This all occurred to me in the span of two games schooling my daughter ;) 1. Don't want what you want to get it. When I was a kid, I loved tennis. I wanted to go pro. When I played points, I really didn't want to lose.
"Comparison is the thief of joy" they say. It's also the thief of progress. Because if you watch those ahead of you, demoralization will set in. Overwhelm. All-or-nothing thinking. Maybe even shame. We—especially us Type A guys—watch the scoreboard incessantly. But what
We're fundamentally lazy creatures. I was thinking about my kids and sports. So much of parenting is telling your kids to do stuff that sucks. We view this as a binary trade: Do nothing or do the uncomfortable thing. Yet it's all about tradeoffs: play video