July 18, 2025 • 18 mins
Is there a bigger win available in the way you show up on the court? In this episode I challenge you to look beyond the immediate win to pursue a bigger victory. This could be through practical scenarios like line calls, serve legality, and rec play dynamics because empathy, patience, and intention can lead to greater growth as a pickleball player.
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(00:04):
Hello and welcome to Pickleballl Therapy,the podcast dedicated to
your Pickleball improvement.I hope you're having a great week.
This week's podcast, I think you're goingto enjoy a concept that
I've been exploring.
And I'm actually going to ask you for yourhelp with this podcast because I think
it's an interesting concept and maybeyou can help me develop this idea.
It's a new way of thinking aboutengaging with different options that we
(00:27):
have when we're playing in terms oflooking for wins and results.
And I think you'll find it a prettyinteresting way of thinking about how we
interact with the sport of pickleball.
And then in the RIF, I have a great shoutout that I'm going to share that
it really helps us actually analyze whatwe're working on today
(00:48):
or what we're developing.
So I think it's pretty helpful.
It's a, I think, was it two stars?
I'm sorry, they actually got two stars.
Better than one star, I guess.
But it was I don't know why it wasn't onestar based on the language of the
review, but we'll talk about it becauseeverybody's in the out of
their opinion, I guess.
(01:08):
And I think it gives us an opportunityto work on the main subject today.
As we dive into the podcast,As I mentioned, try and mention every
week, one of our lovesin pickleball is coaching.
And so we offer several different types ofcoaching opportunities
at Better Pickleball.
If it's something that we can ever helpyou with, please check
(01:28):
out our coaching options.
We have an academy, we have the pickleballsystem, which is a year long course.
We have some direct coaching thatwe're doing now and things like that.
So if you're not sure what we do, well,first of all, make sure you're on our
email list because you'll be notifiedof different things that come out.
And then if you have a question, you canalways send us an email at either
support@betterpickleball orcoaching@betterpickleball.
com and get you an answer if you'reinterested in learning more about
(01:52):
the great sport of pickleball.
All right, let's diveinto the subject of...
Oh, one more housekeeping note, sorry.
If you're listening to this podcast theday it comes out, I will still be in St.
Louis at Major League Pickleball.
So if you're going to happen to bein that area, please say hello to me.
I'll be wearing an orange cap.
It should be pretty easy to locate.
And I know sometimes playersare hesitant to say hello.
(02:14):
I guarantee you or promise you that Iwon't bite and you can always say hello.
And maybe we can takea photo if you want to.
All right, let's diveinto the main topic today.
So I've been playing with this idea ofhow do you deal with situations where
where weget bogged down in trying to seek a,
(02:38):
what I will submit to you is asmaller or more immediate victory or win,
when there may be, in fact,a bigger win available to us.
So this idea that, should we thinkabout maybe going for the bigger win?
And there's different ways ofof exemplifying it or illustrating it,
(03:04):
which I think make it easier to processthe information or process
the concept, I should say.
So let's play with a couple of those, andthen maybe we can see where we take this
concept But I think it may end up being apretty helpful concept for us as we
continue to work through our mentaljourneys as pickleball players.
So oneexample that comes up in my mind is, as
(03:29):
you may I play senior professionalpickleball, so I'm a pretty
decent pickleball player.
And let's say that sometimes I will go toopen plays and things
like that and mix in.
So let's say I'm playing in a mixed gameof some 3-0, some 3-5, some
4-Ls, and things like that.
Now, I can basically try to take over myside of the court,
(03:52):
hit the ball super hard at players, do mything, and then maybe probably end
up with the win in the game, right?Probably.
Not 100 %, but probably.
Another option is I can play a moreinclusive style of pickle ball.
And what I mean by that is,is play at a level that allows the other
(04:13):
players on the court to enjoy theexperience, to be challenged, but to enjoy
the experience, to move the ball around,to get some exercise, to hit some balls
back and forth and things like that.
Allow my partner, who may also be a 3-0 or3-5, to hit as many balls as they can that
are reasonably theirs, as opposed totaking a bunch of the court,
(04:35):
and potentially reduce mychances of winning that game.
But I guess the question in that situationis, or the thought there is, when I do so,
am I not chasing the bigger win?
(04:57):
I may I lose the game,but perhaps I'm gaining
something even biggerthan the score of an arbitrary score in a
game, that at the end of the day is notgoing to make a difference to anybody.
So That's one area where youcan think about that concept.
(05:18):
Another area we can think about it isin something like an outball dispute.
So let's say you make the calland you call it out.
You see it, you're That's out.I'm going to make the call.
And your opponent isjust losing their mind.
I mean, they're justabsolutely losing their mind.
(05:39):
Now, it's your call.
And if you called it out, I'mokay with the fact that you saw it out.
You believe it to be out based on theinformation that you received from your
eyes and your mind processingthat optic information, et cetera.
So you have every right to winthe call argument.
(06:04):
Okay?I mean, it's your call.
You can just look across the net and say,I appreciate your perspective, but it's my
call, and I'm going to stand by my call.
And so you win.
But is there a bigger win?
Is there perhaps a bigger win?
(06:25):
It appears to be such abig deal to your opponent.
It is affecting their ability toenjoy that game, enjoy that match.
Perhaps the bigger win is tolet them have the call.
And I'll give you guys a personal story.
And I talked about this a littledifferently before in the podcast I talked
(06:45):
about it in terms of like,just we all do the best we can.
And this was a tournament matchwhere I saw the ball out.
So I called it out.
Opponent lost his mind.
I just not quite jumpingup and down in the court.
We're pretty close to that.
And he was beside himself with the call.
(07:06):
And at that point, I took the,maybe the smaller went, I'll say, now
that I'm thinking about it this way.
Because it was my right to make the call.
It was amacho moment or whatever where you'd puff
up the chest and go like, Hey, man, youcan see everyone see it, but it's my call,
and it is what it is,so let's just move on.
(07:28):
And I'm going to call itthe way I saw it, right?
And then just And I don't think there'sanything technically wrong with what I
did, because that's what I sawand that's my call, et cetera.
But could I have maybe gotten a bigger winthere in terms of just the world and
pickleball in general and thesport and everything else, right?
I think so.
(07:48):
I think I could have had a bigger win byjust saying, yeah, it's fine.
If you're that strong about it, I'llBasically, it can see the call.
Is that really that muchdamaging to me, right?
I mean, it's like, I don't know if youwatch soccer or not, but I watch soccer.
(08:09):
And one of the things that drives meinsane is most players are trained to
challenge every ruling, everything.
And so it's almost like they never commita foul, which is silly because, of
course, they're going to commit fouls.
It's a contact sport,it's a physical sport.
And so it becomessilly for them to do that, right?
(08:35):
Where the bigger win might be for them tosometimes go like, Yeah,
that was my mistake, right?I screwed that up.
No big deal.
Anyway, I digress.
One other area would be the illegal serve,the quintessential
argument, the illegal serve idea.
I've talked about this before, but Ihaven't articulated it this
way in terms of the bigger win.
(08:55):
What I've said in the past is,leave it be because it's
probably not affecting the game.
Usually, most of the time when you see,not all the time, but the vast majority of
the time when the playersays, Is that serve illegal?
In rec play, it's not really a bigdeal, even if it is technically illegal.
(09:15):
But again, is there a bigger win?
Is it a bigger win for you toallow that serve to just be what it is?
And the nice thing about the bigger win isthat it helps incorporate
a bit more empathy into our practice, intoour lives, because you're like in the
(09:36):
alcohol situation,even you're conceding the call to your
opponent in situations whereyou can just simply say, well, to them,
it's obviously moreimportant than it is to me.
And so I'm going to grant them this.
It's like a gift you're handing them.
(09:58):
Same thing with the illegalSometimes it could be they're just
not comfortable serving any other way.
And so you make them serve the legal way,they're going to miss their serve and not
want to play because they feel pressure ormaybe their arm bothers them or whatever.
Myriad reasons why a lot of...
Not a lot, but why some players mayserve in a manner that's illegal.
(10:18):
But maybe there's a bigger win there.
So yeah, just something to think about.
And if you have feedback on that, pleaselet me know in the comments on YouTube.
It's the best way to do it.
If you go to YouTube and look atPickleball Therapy,
you'll find this episode.
And then there you can shareyour ideas in the comments.
That would be appreciated.
And maybe we can work on this togetherand come up with the concept here.
(10:41):
Which leads me to the RIF.
And it's perfect becausethis The Comet allows us to seek the
bigger win or me to seek the bigger win.
So it's the comment is entitled...
The heading of the comment is, it was lefton June ninth, 2025, and I
appreciate leaving the feedback.
Longwinded Nonsense is the name of thecomment or the feedback.
(11:05):
I don't know, again, why it's two stars,but I guess thank you for giving
me two stars instead of one.
This podcast is a longwinded waste of time.
I can't imagine being coached by himand waiting for him to get to a point.
So a couple of things, right?
It's, one is the idea ofSondra that I just mentioned.
(11:28):
Obviously, this person is entitled tonavigate the Earth the way
that they want to navigate it.
Frank, I'm always a little bit surprisedthat someone would listen to the podcast,
the entire podcast, if they'renot enjoying what they're hearing.
But that's okay.
I appreciate you listening to the podcast.
And the big win and thesmall win here, right?
(11:49):
So the big win, the small win would befor me to take issue with this, right?
I think.
That's what I'm playing with in myhead, with this small win, big win.
So the small win here would mean tome to go toe to toe with this person.
Actually, the comment I just made probablyis a little bit of a small win idea.
I'm just fighting them about it.
I have to share it withyou because it's curious.
(12:10):
So the name of the avatar, the usernamehere is, I wasted my time 6: 19.
So I don't know if that's a common thingthat happens to this person, and maybe
that's baked into howthey're seeing things.
Things like this that aren't this quicklittle fix or a waste of I'm not sure.
(12:31):
But when I look at it in terms of biggerwin, I try to think of what this
show, what this illustrates to me orpoints out to me is how we're as a
society, we're moving away fromdeep and maybe lengthy sometimes.
(12:53):
I'm sure I guarantee that Ispeak a little longer than others.
But it's because I'm trying to exploresomething or I'm trying to go deeper on
something or explain it at a differentlevel than a TikTok or
a quick Instagram video.
But we live in a world whereeverything now is short.
Frankly, like our social mediaconsultants, they're always like,
(13:17):
you have 30 seconds.
I think right now, 30 secondsin total, I should say.
We're down to three seconds toget attention or four seconds.
I mean, it's like a reallycompressed attention span.
So when you see this a comment, perhapsthat's just this person is
conditioned this way.
(13:40):
And it's unfortunate from my perspectivethat the person is looking
for just quick hits.
Frankly, I don't knowhow to do it in a mental.
If I did, I would.
Listen, I'd be happy to give you afive second thing on the
mental and everything is fixed.
But that's not my experience anyway, ofhow the mental has worked for me,
nor my experience of how it's worked withother players for whom
(14:02):
it's been effective.
It's a process.
You have to think about it.
Sometimes I may saythe same concept three different ways, and
the first two ways don't land, and thethird way it lands, and
now we have progress.
So that's part of this process as well.
Frankly, from my perspective, I will tellyou that I'm at a place
right now where when I...
(14:24):
I'm not saying I'm perfect about it.
When my initial reaction to these thingsis still a little Still small, I guess.
Like, oh, what do youlike about the podcast?
But then as I let it simmer a little bit,let it sit a little bit, then I
ask myself about the Sonda, right?
And how we're being conditionedin our attention spans.
(14:48):
And then lastly, I honestly,I wish that this...
I hope for this player,I assume it's a player, but I hope for
this player that he or shefinds a way to interact with longer form
content in a way that is productive forthem, because I think that there's a lot
of benefit to that inthe long term for them.
(15:12):
It's the same hope that I have for playerslooking to improve just
their mechanical skills in the gameor their strategic skills in the game.
Whenever we're looking for those quickhits and things like that,
that's just not how things work.
And it ends up being counterproductivemost of the time.
And those quick fix things, when youexplore them, oftentimes they're
(15:36):
missing pieces or they're incomplete.
I guess I think missing pieces,incomplete, or they lack substance in
them, but they seem reallygood on the surface.
Anyway, so that's mythought there on that.
Again, I appreciate them sharing theirfeedback about the
episodes and the podcast.
But is there a bigger win for meas a podcast, a content creator?
(16:00):
Yes.
And I think the bigger win here isto encourage the player, whether it's this
voice or another voice, to find long-formcontent that can help them
with their mental journey.
Because if they listen to this podcast Myguess is they did so because they're
in need of something in the mental side oftheir game, in the mental side
(16:23):
of their development as players.
And if they can find a voice thatresonates with them, that
helps them, I'm all for that.
All right, so let's keep workingon this concept of bigger wins.
Think about it whenyou're out there, right?
Maybe you'll come up with something as youengage with the sport, as you
interact with other players.
See if you can find moments to have thatbigger win a dispute over a paddle
(16:47):
placement,a player who doesn't want to play in a
certain formation on the court, whatever.
The things that are normal that happen indaily pick-up all life that
are less than agreeable for us.
See if you can find an area where you canlook for the bigger win, look for the
bigger picture thing that you can do thatis better for the situation than simply
(17:10):
winning the small victory, which is thegame or the argument or the whatever, see
if there's a way to pivot that towardsa bigger win and then share it with us.
And again, the best way to do that wouldbe in a comment to the YouTube
video that accompanies this podcast.
And as always, if you have a moment torate and review the podcast,
really appreciate you doing that.
(17:31):
And lastly, please share the podcast withyour friends because if you enjoyed the
podcast and if it helped you along yourmental journey, it will probably
help your friend as well.
I'll be at the MLP this week, so ifyou're up there, please say hello.
Next week, probably going to do an archiveepisode because I will be
out of town with family.
(17:54):
Got a family summer trip plannedwith the grandkids and everybody.
So next week will be an archiveepisode going into the vault.
And then the week after that, we'llbe back into our regular programming.
I hope you have a great week and I'll seeyou on the next episode
of The Pickleball Therapy.Be well.
Hello and welcome to Pickleballl Therapy,the podcast dedicated to
your Pickleball improvement.I hope you're having a great week.
This week's podcast, I think you're goingto enjoy a concept that
I've been exploring.
And I'm actually going to ask you for yourhelp with this podcast because I think
it's an interesting concept and maybeyou can help me develop this idea.
It's a new way of thinking aboutengaging with different options that we
(00:27):
have when we're playing in terms oflooking for wins and results.
And I think you'll find it a prettyinteresting way of thinking about how we
interact with the sport of pickleball.
And then in the RIF, I have a great shoutout that I'm going to share that
it really helps us actually analyze whatwe're working on today
(00:48):
or what we're developing.
So I think it's pretty helpful.
It's a, I think, was it two stars?
I'm sorry, they actually got two stars.
Better than one star, I guess.
But it was I don't know why it wasn't onestar based on the language of the
review, but we'll talk about it becauseeverybody's in the out of
their opinion, I guess.
(01:08):
And I think it gives us an opportunityto work on the main subject today.
As we dive into the podcast,As I mentioned, try and mention every
week, one of our lovesin pickleball is coaching.
And so we offer several different types ofcoaching opportunities
at Better Pickleball.
If it's something that we can ever helpyou with, please check
(01:28):
out our coaching options.
We have an academy, we have the pickleballsystem, which is a year long course.
We have some direct coaching thatwe're doing now and things like that.
So if you're not sure what we do, well,first of all, make sure you're on our
email list because you'll be notifiedof different things that come out.
And then if you have a question, you canalways send us an email at either
support@betterpickleball orcoaching@betterpickleball.
com and get you an answer if you'reinterested in learning more about
(01:52):
the great sport of pickleball.
All right, let's diveinto the subject of...
Oh, one more housekeeping note, sorry.
If you're listening to this podcast theday it comes out, I will still be in St.
Louis at Major League Pickleball.
So if you're going to happen to bein that area, please say hello to me.
I'll be wearing an orange cap.
It should be pretty easy to locate.
And I know sometimes playersare hesitant to say hello.
(02:14):
I guarantee you or promise you that Iwon't bite and you can always say hello.
And maybe we can takea photo if you want to.
All right, let's diveinto the main topic today.
So I've been playing with this idea ofhow do you deal with situations where
where weget bogged down in trying to seek a,
(02:38):
what I will submit to you is asmaller or more immediate victory or win,
when there may be, in fact,a bigger win available to us.
So this idea that, should we thinkabout maybe going for the bigger win?
And there's different ways ofof exemplifying it or illustrating it,
(03:04):
which I think make it easier to processthe information or process
the concept, I should say.
So let's play with a couple of those, andthen maybe we can see where we take this
concept But I think it may end up being apretty helpful concept for us as we
continue to work through our mentaljourneys as pickleball players.
So oneexample that comes up in my mind is, as
(03:29):
you may I play senior professionalpickleball, so I'm a pretty
decent pickleball player.
And let's say that sometimes I will go toopen plays and things
like that and mix in.
So let's say I'm playing in a mixed gameof some 3-0, some 3-5, some
4-Ls, and things like that.
Now, I can basically try to take over myside of the court,
(03:52):
hit the ball super hard at players, do mything, and then maybe probably end
up with the win in the game, right?Probably.
Not 100 %, but probably.
Another option is I can play a moreinclusive style of pickle ball.
And what I mean by that is,is play at a level that allows the other
(04:13):
players on the court to enjoy theexperience, to be challenged, but to enjoy
the experience, to move the ball around,to get some exercise, to hit some balls
back and forth and things like that.
Allow my partner, who may also be a 3-0 or3-5, to hit as many balls as they can that
are reasonably theirs, as opposed totaking a bunch of the court,
(04:35):
and potentially reduce mychances of winning that game.
But I guess the question in that situationis, or the thought there is, when I do so,
am I not chasing the bigger win?
(04:57):
I may I lose the game,but perhaps I'm gaining
something even biggerthan the score of an arbitrary score in a
game, that at the end of the day is notgoing to make a difference to anybody.
So That's one area where youcan think about that concept.
(05:18):
Another area we can think about it isin something like an outball dispute.
So let's say you make the calland you call it out.
You see it, you're That's out.I'm going to make the call.
And your opponent isjust losing their mind.
I mean, they're justabsolutely losing their mind.
(05:39):
Now, it's your call.
And if you called it out, I'mokay with the fact that you saw it out.
You believe it to be out based on theinformation that you received from your
eyes and your mind processingthat optic information, et cetera.
So you have every right to winthe call argument.
(06:04):
Okay?I mean, it's your call.
You can just look across the net and say,I appreciate your perspective, but it's my
call, and I'm going to stand by my call.
And so you win.
But is there a bigger win?
Is there perhaps a bigger win?
(06:25):
It appears to be such abig deal to your opponent.
It is affecting their ability toenjoy that game, enjoy that match.
Perhaps the bigger win is tolet them have the call.
And I'll give you guys a personal story.
And I talked about this a littledifferently before in the podcast I talked
(06:45):
about it in terms of like,just we all do the best we can.
And this was a tournament matchwhere I saw the ball out.
So I called it out.
Opponent lost his mind.
I just not quite jumpingup and down in the court.
We're pretty close to that.
And he was beside himself with the call.
(07:06):
And at that point, I took the,maybe the smaller went, I'll say, now
that I'm thinking about it this way.
Because it was my right to make the call.
It was amacho moment or whatever where you'd puff
up the chest and go like, Hey, man, youcan see everyone see it, but it's my call,
and it is what it is,so let's just move on.
(07:28):
And I'm going to call itthe way I saw it, right?
And then just And I don't think there'sanything technically wrong with what I
did, because that's what I sawand that's my call, et cetera.
But could I have maybe gotten a bigger winthere in terms of just the world and
pickleball in general and thesport and everything else, right?
I think so.
(07:48):
I think I could have had a bigger win byjust saying, yeah, it's fine.
If you're that strong about it, I'llBasically, it can see the call.
Is that really that muchdamaging to me, right?
I mean, it's like, I don't know if youwatch soccer or not, but I watch soccer.
(08:09):
And one of the things that drives meinsane is most players are trained to
challenge every ruling, everything.
And so it's almost like they never commita foul, which is silly because, of
course, they're going to commit fouls.
It's a contact sport,it's a physical sport.
And so it becomessilly for them to do that, right?
(08:35):
Where the bigger win might be for them tosometimes go like, Yeah,
that was my mistake, right?I screwed that up.
No big deal.
Anyway, I digress.
One other area would be the illegal serve,the quintessential
argument, the illegal serve idea.
I've talked about this before, but Ihaven't articulated it this
way in terms of the bigger win.
(08:55):
What I've said in the past is,leave it be because it's
probably not affecting the game.
Usually, most of the time when you see,not all the time, but the vast majority of
the time when the playersays, Is that serve illegal?
In rec play, it's not really a bigdeal, even if it is technically illegal.
(09:15):
But again, is there a bigger win?
Is it a bigger win for you toallow that serve to just be what it is?
And the nice thing about the bigger win isthat it helps incorporate
a bit more empathy into our practice, intoour lives, because you're like in the
(09:36):
alcohol situation,even you're conceding the call to your
opponent in situations whereyou can just simply say, well, to them,
it's obviously moreimportant than it is to me.
And so I'm going to grant them this.
It's like a gift you're handing them.
(09:58):
Same thing with the illegalSometimes it could be they're just
not comfortable serving any other way.
And so you make them serve the legal way,they're going to miss their serve and not
want to play because they feel pressure ormaybe their arm bothers them or whatever.
Myriad reasons why a lot of...
Not a lot, but why some players mayserve in a manner that's illegal.
(10:18):
But maybe there's a bigger win there.
So yeah, just something to think about.
And if you have feedback on that, pleaselet me know in the comments on YouTube.
It's the best way to do it.
If you go to YouTube and look atPickleball Therapy,
you'll find this episode.
And then there you can shareyour ideas in the comments.
That would be appreciated.
And maybe we can work on this togetherand come up with the concept here.
(10:41):
Which leads me to the RIF.
And it's perfect becausethis The Comet allows us to seek the
bigger win or me to seek the bigger win.
So it's the comment is entitled...
The heading of the comment is, it was lefton June ninth, 2025, and I
appreciate leaving the feedback.
Longwinded Nonsense is the name of thecomment or the feedback.
(11:05):
I don't know, again, why it's two stars,but I guess thank you for giving
me two stars instead of one.
This podcast is a longwinded waste of time.
I can't imagine being coached by himand waiting for him to get to a point.
So a couple of things, right?
It's, one is the idea ofSondra that I just mentioned.
(11:28):
Obviously, this person is entitled tonavigate the Earth the way
that they want to navigate it.
Frank, I'm always a little bit surprisedthat someone would listen to the podcast,
the entire podcast, if they'renot enjoying what they're hearing.
But that's okay.
I appreciate you listening to the podcast.
And the big win and thesmall win here, right?
(11:49):
So the big win, the small win would befor me to take issue with this, right?
I think.
That's what I'm playing with in myhead, with this small win, big win.
So the small win here would mean tome to go toe to toe with this person.
Actually, the comment I just made probablyis a little bit of a small win idea.
I'm just fighting them about it.
I have to share it withyou because it's curious.
(12:10):
So the name of the avatar, the usernamehere is, I wasted my time 6: 19.
So I don't know if that's a common thingthat happens to this person, and maybe
that's baked into howthey're seeing things.
Things like this that aren't this quicklittle fix or a waste of I'm not sure.
(12:31):
But when I look at it in terms of biggerwin, I try to think of what this
show, what this illustrates to me orpoints out to me is how we're as a
society, we're moving away fromdeep and maybe lengthy sometimes.
(12:53):
I'm sure I guarantee that Ispeak a little longer than others.
But it's because I'm trying to exploresomething or I'm trying to go deeper on
something or explain it at a differentlevel than a TikTok or
a quick Instagram video.
But we live in a world whereeverything now is short.
Frankly, like our social mediaconsultants, they're always like,
(13:17):
you have 30 seconds.
I think right now, 30 secondsin total, I should say.
We're down to three seconds toget attention or four seconds.
I mean, it's like a reallycompressed attention span.
So when you see this a comment, perhapsthat's just this person is
conditioned this way.
(13:40):
And it's unfortunate from my perspectivethat the person is looking
for just quick hits.
Frankly, I don't knowhow to do it in a mental.
If I did, I would.
Listen, I'd be happy to give you afive second thing on the
mental and everything is fixed.
But that's not my experience anyway, ofhow the mental has worked for me,
nor my experience of how it's worked withother players for whom
(14:02):
it's been effective.
It's a process.
You have to think about it.
Sometimes I may saythe same concept three different ways, and
the first two ways don't land, and thethird way it lands, and
now we have progress.
So that's part of this process as well.
Frankly, from my perspective, I will tellyou that I'm at a place
right now where when I...
(14:24):
I'm not saying I'm perfect about it.
When my initial reaction to these thingsis still a little Still small, I guess.
Like, oh, what do youlike about the podcast?
But then as I let it simmer a little bit,let it sit a little bit, then I
ask myself about the Sonda, right?
And how we're being conditionedin our attention spans.
(14:48):
And then lastly, I honestly,I wish that this...
I hope for this player,I assume it's a player, but I hope for
this player that he or shefinds a way to interact with longer form
content in a way that is productive forthem, because I think that there's a lot
of benefit to that inthe long term for them.
(15:12):
It's the same hope that I have for playerslooking to improve just
their mechanical skills in the gameor their strategic skills in the game.
Whenever we're looking for those quickhits and things like that,
that's just not how things work.
And it ends up being counterproductivemost of the time.
And those quick fix things, when youexplore them, oftentimes they're
(15:36):
missing pieces or they're incomplete.
I guess I think missing pieces,incomplete, or they lack substance in
them, but they seem reallygood on the surface.
Anyway, so that's mythought there on that.
Again, I appreciate them sharing theirfeedback about the
episodes and the podcast.
But is there a bigger win for meas a podcast, a content creator?
(16:00):
Yes.
And I think the bigger win here isto encourage the player, whether it's this
voice or another voice, to find long-formcontent that can help them
with their mental journey.
Because if they listen to this podcast Myguess is they did so because they're
in need of something in the mental side oftheir game, in the mental side
(16:23):
of their development as players.
And if they can find a voice thatresonates with them, that
helps them, I'm all for that.
All right, so let's keep workingon this concept of bigger wins.
Think about it whenyou're out there, right?
Maybe you'll come up with something as youengage with the sport, as you
interact with other players.
See if you can find moments to have thatbigger win a dispute over a paddle
(16:47):
placement,a player who doesn't want to play in a
certain formation on the court, whatever.
The things that are normal that happen indaily pick-up all life that
are less than agreeable for us.
See if you can find an area where you canlook for the bigger win, look for the
bigger picture thing that you can do thatis better for the situation than simply
(17:10):
winning the small victory, which is thegame or the argument or the whatever, see
if there's a way to pivot that towardsa bigger win and then share it with us.
And again, the best way to do that wouldbe in a comment to the YouTube
video that accompanies this podcast.
And as always, if you have a moment torate and review the podcast,
really appreciate you doing that.
(17:31):
And lastly, please share the podcast withyour friends because if you enjoyed the
podcast and if it helped you along yourmental journey, it will probably
help your friend as well.
I'll be at the MLP this week, so ifyou're up there, please say hello.
Next week, probably going to do an archiveepisode because I will be
out of town with family.
(17:54):
Got a family summer trip plannedwith the grandkids and everybody.
So next week will be an archiveepisode going into the vault.
And then the week after that, we'llbe back into our regular programming.
I hope you have a great week and I'll seeyou on the next episode
of The Pickleball Therapy.Be well.
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