Life And Life Only Antony Rotunno

We conclude our discussion centred on W Timothy Gallwey’s book ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ by talking about nerves, including citing some famous cases of ‘choking’ in sport, and then engaging in a little fun speculation as to who might win the remaining tennis Grand Slams of this year and beyond, in both the men’s and women’s tours. 
 
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https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
 
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
 
episode links
link to Mr Gallwey’s book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis
  
A previous LALO episode about nerves (and table tennis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4BqdMZ3Pd4
 
Jan Van der Velde’s famous meltdown at the British Open in 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t00AbenIkc
 
Jana Novotna chokes at Wimbledon in 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miGEqbZkHOo
 
What exactly are Introverts and Extroverts?
https://www.simplypsychology.org/introvert-extrovert.html
 
A short animated guide to Sport Psychology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jj2I_Kn-s

Darrell & Antony continue their discussion of W Timothy Gallwey’s book ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’, which expertly uses that sport as a context to give wider insights into the nature of performance, the mental traps we set for ourselves and how to overcome challenges and be your best self.
Although not an easy thing to do, you may find that at least it’s simpler than you think, and the book (and hopefully our discussion) offers many lessons for tennis, sport and life.
 
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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
 
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
 
episode links
link to Mr Gallwey’s book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis
  
A previous LALO episode about tennis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-BmXL_ajLc
 
A short animated guide to Sport Psychology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jj2I_Kn-s
 
TED talk- ‘Inside The Mind of Champion Athletes’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG7v4y_xwzQ
 
McEnroe-Borg: Fire and Ice (documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvF5ARwXm-M

For our first podcast series of 2024, we welcome Darrell Swan to talk about some of the benefits of Life Coaching before we deep dive into the book ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ by W Timothy Gallwey. Darrell is a former Life Coachee of Antony’s and also a tennis player with a great interest in sports psychology.
 
Gallwey’s book expertly uses tennis as a context to give wider insights into the nature of performance, some of the mental traps involved and how to be mindful and let your natural self perform. There are many lessons here for tennis, general sport and life.
 
This first part of the discussion is the Life Coaching section, some ‘outer truth’ insights and the first portion of ‘The Inner Game’.
 
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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
 
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
 
episode links
link to Mr Gallwey’s book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis
 
The previous LALO episode on Life Coaching
https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/e/episode-19-life-coaching-creativity-communal-experience-mental-health/
 
A short animated guide to Sport Psychology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jj2I_Kn-s
 
TED talk- ‘Inside The Mind of Champion Athletes’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG7v4y_xwzQ

And so we finally reach the end of this podcast odyssey with the longest episode of the 4-part series...
The main topics here are fame (linking neatly to LALO episode 40) and the interestingly similar trajectory it shares with money in terms of how its escalation affects -or doesn't affect- a person's happiness, and then the granddaddy of all topics- death. There’s also some talk about mindfulness meditation here, offering another callback to a previous LALO episode.
Once again Derren Brown turns to some ancient wisdom to illustrate his points in the book, but there are also some fascinating modern takes on fame, death and a few other things. As always your humble host weighs in with his thoughts too, as well as offering a slightly unusual greeting of the season.
It's hard to summarise the many possible takeaways from a 6-hour  analysis of a 500-page book, but with my life coach’s hat on I can only strongly suggest a focus on excellence and full attention to tasks, including the tricky one of living itself.
We also need to understand that we are telling ourselves stories all the time, often about events that we have little or no control over and with little evidence to back up our conclusions. Life is hard but can actually be far simpler than we make it if we can limit these stories and try to relax and live with grace and compassion, both for ourselves and for others.
I sincerely hope you enjoy this final episode and have enjoyed the ones before it. If so, please subscribe, like, share etc...
See you in 2024!
 
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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
 
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
 
episode links
Rory Sutherland’s wonderfully entertaining TED talks
https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_perspective_is_everything
https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man
Pure Heaven (story by Antony Rotunno)
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/pure-heaven/
Sam Harris: The Lessons of Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL2uFYi86kk
When I Die; Lessons From The Death Zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2eUw0CUuMc
Derren Brown- Unlock The Secret Power of Your Mind!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVblCpr_qAc
Groundhog Day: A Lesson In Happiness (video essay)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT2fqrMjTSQ
The mind-boggling true scale of the universe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7NzjCmUf0
Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
The Psychology of Amy Winehouse (‘Psychology In Seattle’ podcast)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/10958640/the-psychology-of-amy-winehouse-2015-rer_1
Money: Humanity’s Biggest Illusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFO6OtnmEDo

The next part of this epic journey through Derren Brown’s book ‘Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine’ and the general topic of happiness takes us further into fate and accepting the downsides of life while finding its way back to some core themes of the book. These include our construction of narratives with little evidence, catastrophising and ‘mind-reading’ (ours, not Derren’s!).
We also look at those old enemies anger, fear & guilt, with a little help from our friends the Stoics, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and others. There’s a lot more along the way and I humble believe you will get a lot out of this if you listen with attention and an open mind and try to digest the occasionally complex but always accessible ideas in the book and the episode.
 
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching) https://www.antonyrotunno.com
Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
 
episode links
Quotes about happiness
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/happiness
Types of happiness (online article) https://www.verywellmind.com/happiness-types-4173234
PDF of ‘On Anger’ by Seneca
http://www.sophia-project.org/uploads/1/3/9/5/13955288/seneca_anger.pdf
Derren talks about his book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrxrJyymG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DigsvZCXo
Derren’s TED talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/derren_brown_mentalism_mind_reading_and_the_art_of_getting_inside_your_head?autoplay=true&muted=true
TED talk- ‘The Paradox of Choice’
https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice?autoplay=true&muted=true
 

Antony appeared on ‘Luke’s English podcast’ in April/May this year to profile Life And Life Only, and here is a compilation of the two episodes, which originally went out on video (see links below).
The topics discussed by Luke and Antony are the podcast itself, Cats, Titanic, Travelling, English Teaching, Life Coaching, David Blaine, Food & Diet, Films, Conspiracy Theories (including the weaponisation of the phrase), Comedy and Happiness.
 
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching) 
https://www.antonyrotunno.com
 
Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/
 
Luke’s website and one of our previous collaborations
https://teacherluke.co.uk/
https://teacherluke.co.uk/2022/03/16/762-meditation-learning-english-with-antony-rotunno/
 
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com  (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
 
episode links
The video version of this podcast (2 parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OPVuQTGhk&t=293s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V53J0wa41hM
 
The Frost Report- The Class Sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34CsPPw5uM
 
TED-Ed guide to cats
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-cats-act-so-weird-tony-buffington
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history-of-the-world-according-to-cats-eva-maria-geigl
 
Antony’s ‘Travelling Light’ story
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/travelling-light/
 
What is Life Coaching?
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/29/what-is-life-coaching/
 
David Blaine with Joe Rogan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4LraPdm5YI
 
Morgan Spurlock food experiment (scary!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMWq26zH_sU