Felicitamos al Senador @VirgilioCedano por haber logrado que la provincia La Altagracia haya sido declarada como âprovincia ecoturĂsticaâ. Un proyecto deseado y mĂĄs que merecido desde hace muchos años. Dario Yunes debe estar feliz en el cielo.
Days after a quarterfinals loss in the 2010 French Open, Novak Djokovic told his coach, MariĂĄn Vajda, that he had decided to quit playing tennis.
He was No. 3 in the world, a grand slam winner, and a favorite to win Wimbledon.
After Djokovic said he was quitting, Vajda asked,
âWhy did you start playing this sport?â
Vajda immediately sensed what the problem was:
Djokovic was focusing too much on rankings, records, titles, and external expectations. As a result, Djokovic said, âI was mentally at one very messed up place.â
As Djokovic thought about Vajdaâs question, he thought about how many of his earliest childhood memories include his âmost beloved toyââa mini tennis racket and a soft foam ball.
He started playing tennis, answering Vajdaâs question, âbecause I just really loved holding that racket in my hand.â
âDo you still love holding a racket in your hand?â Vajda asked.
Djokovic thought about it for a few seconds, got excited, and said:
âI do. I still love holding a racket in my hand. Whether itâs a grand slam final on center court or just playing around on a public court, I like playing for the sake of playing.â
Vajda nodded, âWell thatâs your source. That's what you need to tap into. Put aside rankings and what you want to achieve and what you think others are expecting of you.â
Vajda then suggested that Djokovic take a few weeks off.
Djokovic agreed that he would.
But when he woke up the next morning, Djokovic was dying to hit tennis balls. He went to the courts to play for the sake of playing. âAnd I never looked back ever since that moment.â
The following season, Djokovic enjoyed one of the greatest seasons in sports history. He won 43 straight matches. He won three Grand Slams, including his first Wimbledon title. And he finished the year as the number one player in the world.
âI started to play freely,â he says of that season. âI became the kid that I was when I started playing.â
Takeaway 1:
There's a word for being like the kid who does something for the sake of doing it:
Autotelic.
From the Greek "auto" (self) & "telos" (end)âan Autotelic is "someone or something that has a purpose in, and not apart from, itself."
As opposed to someone who focuses on rankings, records, titles, and external expectationsâfor an Autotelic...
âThe work is the win,â as Ryan Holiday once told me.
Since you control the effort more than the outcome,
âUltimately, you have to love doing it,â Ryan said. âYou have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.â
Takeaway 2:
When reading about Autotelicsâpeople who describe their work as play, who simply seem to love what they doâa common mistake is to think that itâs all bliss all the time.
One of my favorite Autotelics is the legendary skateboarder Rodney Mullen, who is in his 50s and still skateboards every day.
âThere are days,â Rodney said, âwhere you donât want to go out. Or it hurts. Or youâre sore. Or you just suckâyou're not making progress, and you feel defeated...But that's the nature of loveâit's got hate in there, it's got pain in there. And thatâs what draws you in, that's the magnetism.â
At one point during the recent Wimbledon final, Djokovic angrily smashed and shattered his racket. And after losing the match, he admitted that it will take him a while to get over the loss.
Thatâs the nature of loveâitâs got hate in there, itâs got pain in there.
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âI see people with talent, with all those things, but the one thing they don't have is just that love for doing it for the sake of it.â â Rodney Mullen
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Easiest way to lose influence with a group: be late.
If youâre âabove themâ the group resents you.
If youâre âbelow themâ theyâll feel disrespected.
Both decrease your influence.
And you can avoid the mistake withâŠdrum roll pleaseâŠan alarm.
A tone deaf & ridiculous story in @washingtonpost today
The Dominican Republic isnât a rich country
But it is a sovereign nation with the right & the obligation to prevent a mass migration from Haiti
https://t.co/SugO6fmpr3
The most valuable trait of an entrepreneur:
A sense of urgency.
Most people walk slow, think slow, move slow, make decisions slow. They lolly gag around life.
No energy. No excitement.
Those people never end up making it happen.
They end up working for the man, clocking in at 9am and clocking out at 5pm. Doing the absolute bare minimum to get paid next Friday and not get fired.
Never making moves to chase additional opportunities, never taking a stab at entrepreneurship.
Despidos masivos en lo que va de año:
Google 12,000
Microsoft 10,000
Amazon 18,000
Spotify 600
Recuerda que al final del dĂa la seguridad mas real te la dan tu propio negocio y las inversiones