Hi,
I do not watch tennis. I do not follow it, I could not tell you who is ranked where, and this still stopped me when it came up in the news.
Last Sunday Alexander Zverev won the US Open and did not know it. His opponent hit the final ball long, and Zverev just stood there, because he had lost track of the score and was waiting for the next point. The crowd told him.
Afterwards he said not knowing the score helped him. If he had known, he would probably have served three double faults instead of one.
Anyone who has done a hard workout knows this. The rep in front of you is fine. It is the thirty after it that get heavy, and the only reason they get heavy is that you started counting them.
I keep thinking about that, because it is the whole thing.
Everyone who starts with BeyondYou wants to know what day ninety looks like. I understand it. I wanted to know too. But day ninety is the score, and the score is the thing you are not supposed to be looking at.
So we do not talk about day ninety much. We talk about today. The walk this morning. The meal in front of you. Sleep tonight. You play the point, the score takes care of itself, and one day someone has to tell you it is over because you were busy with the next one.
That is what the team around you is for. We watch the numbers so you do not have to.
Same time next Friday.
Alper Kaynarkan