Ranjay Gulati

In tennis, the pain of a double fault is greater than the pleasure of winning the point.

And so that's why in tennis, all these coaches, what do they teach their players?

Second serve should not be just some lame serve.

It better be a damn good serve too.

That is a huge bottleneck for these people.

What happens to golfers, they have a bad hole and then they become all nervous and cautious about having another bad hole.

In fact, Scotty Scheffler, the number one golf player these days, in an interview not long ago was asked like, what changed his game?

Like this guy is like just cranked it up.

And he said it was a round of golf that he played with Tiger Woods at the Masters in 2022.

And I think it was the 12th hole or something.

It's a par three hole.

And Tiger hit two balls into the water hazard.

And he got a 10 on a par three.

And immediately he was out of contention in the tournament.

And so Scottie's watching this quietly because he's paired up with Tiger.

And what he watches is Tiger comes back and birdies the next five holes, one after the other.

He's completely tuned out of that.

But, you know, loss avoidance becomes, and by the way, in sports psychology, they say that when we encounter fear, it also creates muscular overtightening.

Our muscles tighten up.

And that wrecks the game.