The Coach in Your Head
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Just about anyone today can call themselves a coach. Michael traces this trend back to its source and finds out that the secret to effective coaching lies not in retraining the body, but the mind.
- We meet the original guru of “the inner game”: Timothy Gallwey, author of the 1974 classic, “The Inner Game of Tennis.”
- We find out how mental skills coaches only need one coaching toolkit to work with everyone from New York City firefighters, youth softball players, professional musicians, and even writers with a podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | The Global News Podcast from the BBC World Services. |
| 0:12.0 | What's been happening? Who's involved? Why it matters. What might happen next? |
| 0:17.0 | I think what the Global News Podcast does really well is pick stories about places that surprise people. |
| 0:24.0 | They try to overturn expectations. |
| 0:26.0 | New stories that perhaps you won't have heard anywhere else and the things to look out for in the future. |
| 0:31.0 | The Global News Podcast helps you catch up with our restless world in your own time. |
| 0:36.0 | Search for it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:41.0 | Let's play a game. Line up Americans in a row. All of them. By how likely they are to start a revolution. |
| 0:48.0 | At the front of the line you might put, let's say a student activist. |
| 0:54.0 | Or an energetic member of some agrived interest group. Or some evil genius with a knack for computer programming. |
| 1:01.0 | At the back of the line you'd put, who? Who among us is least likely to go to the trouble of trying to change the world? |
| 1:09.0 | I don't know. A lot of us are complacent. But somewhere near the end of the line I think we can all agree. |
| 1:15.0 | We'd find the golf and tennis coaches of America's Country Clubs. |
| 1:20.0 | When I hired on to be a tennis pro at the middle class Country Club in seaside, California. |
| 1:29.0 | Tim Galway is the name of the board tennis pro in this story. He's in his 80s now. But was in his 30s when the story begins. |
| 1:38.0 | It was four o'clock in the afternoon. I've been teaching all day, not coaching. |
| 1:45.0 | And it gets a little boring telling people where the weight on their foot should be and where they should hit the ball on the rocket. |
| 1:56.0 | On the afternoon in question, Tim was teaching a guy with a slice backhand who wanted to learn how to hit top spin. |
| 2:03.0 | The guy was taking his racket back too high. Ordinarily Tim Galway would just have told the man, hey don't take the racket back too high. |
| 2:12.0 | But he'd lost interest in the sound of his own voice and pretty much everything else. So he just kept quietly tossing balls at the guy's backhand. |
| 2:20.0 | Within three or four minutes, a strange thing happened. He was hitting top spin backhand. |
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