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On June 9, 2024 Roger Federer gave the final commencement speech at Darmouth College with interesting statistics. He shows that he is still champion because he knows that nothing is effortless. He is reinventig himself out of the court because life goes on beyond tennis, beyond what we did yesterday and beyond what we are doing today. Roger says that tennis is not a sport based primarily on having a gift or talent and being fit. What is it about? Watch the 90 seconds of the first lesson of his speech and listen to the final word in the video. Please share your comments with us or share this video if you like. #leadershipcoaching #tennislessons #culturematters

Sick of your tennis slices floating away like a lost balloon? Try doing the OPPOSITE of what your coaches tell you! I have players come to me all the time with their coaches telling them to pull their racket back. Then it gets worse… They want them to shove their racket back through the ball. Then how in the world does Roger Federer, who had the greatest slice in history, manage to play with a slice that did the opposite??? Exactly… their logic doesn’t make any sense. Instead of running away from the Fed, slice, I implore you to give it a try. In our system, the Fed slice works perfectly. He doesn’t PULL the racket back. He keeps it forward to stay concave. Then in his swing, he doesn’t shove it forward through the ball like it’s the 70s. He stays behind the 45 (our 1st core fundamental) for as long as possible. And yes, it looks like slicing bread. If you want to play a beautiful game, why not copy the most effortless and graceful technique in history? Our non-linear system will teach you exactly how to do it. Comment “mini course” and we’ll invite you to our community to access free courses on our core fundamentals. If you implement the fundamentals into your game, I guarantee you’ll be hitting slices like Fed and playing a more beautiful, effortless game immediately. #beyondtennis #tennis #tennisfundamentals #tennistips #tenniscoach #tennistraining #tennistechnique #tennislesson #tennispro #tennisplayer #protennis #learntennis #playtennis

I love commencement addresses (or at least a lot of them). Roger Federer gave one at Dartmouth a few days ago -- if you have time, I recommend it (https://lnkd.in/eUw9VvNj). But here's what resonated the most to me -- "In tennis, perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches (it was actually 82%; Roger is self-deprecating). Now, I have a question for all of you... what percentage of the POINTS do you think I won in those matches? Only 54%. In other words, even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play. When you lose every second point, on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot." He goes on to say that as important as each shot is, once it's done, it's over. This allows you the freedom to concentrate on the next, and focus, and give it your best -- whether that's the next shot, the next day, the next presentation, the next product. Combine that with Ted Lasso's 10 second memory goldfish -- and you just might conquer the world. #federer #perfectionisimpossible #goldfish #tedlasso

Roger Federer is one of the greatest male tennis players of all time. He won 103 ATP singles titles including 20 majors, 28 ATP Master, and 6 ATP Finals. He dominated for years. During a commencement speach at Dartmouth College he shared this: "Perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points did I win? 54% In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play. When you lose ever second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot. You teach yourself to think: 'Okay, I double faulted...it's only a point.' 'Okay, I came to the net and I got passed again...it's only a point.' Even a great shot, an overhead backhand smash that ends up on ESPN's top 10 playlist – that too is just a point. Here's why I'm telling you this. When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world. And it is. But when it's behind you, it's behind you. This mindset is crucial – because it frees you to fully commit to the next point with intensity, clarity, and focus." Focus on the here and now and do your best in this moment. Yesterday, last week, last month and last year are all in the past and there is nothing you can do to control that. Tomorrow, next week, next month and next year are all in the future. You can do things today to set yourself up for a bright future. Today is now and you can control today so focus and make it a great day.

Focus on winning the next point - Roger Federer in how to live life.👍💪 #MooneyTireGuyUSA, #Tirewholesaler, #TireDistributor, #TireDistributorUSA

Great mindset frame for Agile Transformation. It’s not about perfection and planning the Food at the PI event and having cool white boards and Tshirts… It’s about… 1) 1 point at a time 2) Measure your results 3) Learn, Pivot, Execute Wash, Rinse, Repeat! Great Speech

Learn from the past but don’t live there, focus on the next “point” (micro-goal), celebrate it but move on. A win is a win even if it’s just barely a win. Small incremental progress with small obtainable goals gets you to where you want to go. And remember- where you want to go will change. You’re living & breathing- you’re changing in small bits everyday and that leads to incremental growth in yourself too. Embrace it and bring others along to cheer each other on & celebrate wins.

Listening to Roger, I compare what stats make the worlds best tennis players and what companies and managers demand of their teams. If you focus on the stats alone, the majority of companies and managers would see “almost 80%” and “just over half the points won” as failures. I get it, we are often “playing in a different league.” Humans make an average of 2000 decisions per waking hour. So think about how many times your team (and you) gets it right- we know it is higher than these stats. Time to step back and 1) say thank you and 2) learn to move to the next point with clarity. A great share!

While striving for the quality of output, and challenging ourselves to do better, it remains important to safeguard against the need for perfection and the disappointment that may come when that need is overtly ingrained in oneself. I've considered Roger Federer as the epitome of tennis achievement and he too scored only 54% of the points! How empowering is that knowledge! #leadershipskills #growthmindset

Couldn’t agree more! #progress > #perfection 1) Check your #direction 2) Give it your best #effort 3) #Learn from #mistakes and #failures 4) #measure, #recognize and #celebrate progress often No one has #control of the #results, but great results come from the #consistent #commitment to the steps above… #IMO. #YMMV. #FWIW.