David Senra

So he talks about tennis is the sport in which you talk to yourself.

Tennis players talk to themselves and answer.

In the heat of a match, tennis players look like lunatics in a public square, ranting and swearing and conducting debates with their alter egos.

Why?

Because tennis is so damn lonely.

The amount of founders that have told me that they talk to themselves out loud.

They answer themselves.

They're constantly negotiating with their own psyche.

I've lost count of.

And then they also talk about how it's so damn lonely.

And one of the interesting byproducts of all this self-talk and talking to yourself is actually you come up with a lot of good ideas this way.

And for Agassi, it was no different.

For him, a lot of this self-talk also happens in the shower.

He says tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, which inevitably leads to self-talk.

And for me, the self-talk starts here in the afternoon shower.

This is the most important sentence of this paragraph.

This is when I began to say things to myself, crazy things over and over until I believe them.

I have won 869 matches in my career, fifth on the all-time list, and many were won during the afternoon shower.

And he tells us parts of the conversation he's having with himself.

And I think a lot of this is just excellent advice.