The Inner Game

People fear 3 things, Fear of Success, Fear of Failure and Fear of Change. In order to be successful, we must play our inner game if we want to overcome the self-imposed obstacles that prevent us from accessing our full potential”. Tim’s formula for success looks like this: Performance = potential-interference, P=p-i. According to this [...]

STOP THE WAR GOIN ON INSIDE EVERY PERSON’S MIND!!!! Timothy Gallwey in is book “Inner Game of Tennis” described the war. He identified the “Self 1″, the logical, judgemental, mathematical, verbal, competitive, time orientation LEFT BRAIN hemisphere that constantly battles against the “Self 2″, the creative, spontaneous, intuitive, emotional, orientation in space, and in charge [...]

In his seminal book, The Inner Game of Tennis, Tim Gallwey presents an almost “zen-like” approach to playing this great game of ours.

We are at our most effective and creative in the moment. The moment is what we can impact.

That changed in 1974, the year Gallwey published The Inner Game of Tennis. He shifted the focus from what was happening on the outside, to what was happening in the mind of the tennis player.

Timothy Gallwey first coined the term ‘inner game’ in his book The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance.

What is stopping us maximising our performance? To answer that question, you should look at the work by Timothy Gallwey, called the Inner Game. The Inner Game as developed by Gallwey in 1974 builds on the notion of “Potential” and “Performance”. There is a gap between potential and performance which Gallwey describes as the thoughts [...]

His emphasis on fun comes mainly from his DNA but also from his reading, specifically W. Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis, a 122-page book with a cult-like following.

In his brilliant book ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ Tim Gallwey first showed a new way to look at this:
Performance = Potential – Interference

Gallwey hopes his readers outsmart and circumvent stress.