My friend John Tashiro, a wonderful tennis player who trained seriously as a junior, told me a story about his Japanese coach that has stayed with me. The guy had him do drills until he was totally exhausted — and then made him keep going. At some point, he told John, “I want you to […]
As more than one tennis great has noted, the game is played one point at a time. It’s a house that’s built stick by stick, stud by stud, nail by nail. And yet we all have an impulse — a compulsion, really — to come up with overarching narratives that tell us along the way […]
As I’ve written these daily meditations about tennis as a wisdom practice, it’s started to dawn on me that there’s something programmatic in all this — a curriculum. If someone — like, say, me — were to teach this material, what would it look like? This isn’t just a theoretical question. I’m seriously considering taking […]
As Tennis for Good gets off the ground, I find myself with a basic decision. Do we want to build out in the old-fashioned way in which we, the project’s owners, build something privately and then, once it’s reached what we deem to be a ready-to-reveal starting line, pull back the curtain and show it […]
We’ve launched our Health & Wellness category with Winston Wellbeing, an enormous supplement supermarket that offers over 16,000 products from over 250 vendors, including many who only sell through professionals. Names like Pure Encapsulations, Thorne, Metagenics and Life Extension are among the many vendors. Imagine an Amazon for supplements with storefronts owned and managed by […]
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