Win-Win with Liv Boeree

#19 - Marcus Daniell - The Hyper-Competitive World of Pro Tennis


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What sacrifices does it take to be a pro tennis player? Is it possible to have a healthy mindset at the highest stakes?

Marcus Daniell understands it all - he has played professional tennis for over 20 years, a career that has earned him an Olympic medal and a whole lot of wisdom around the nature of competition. He is also the founder of High Impact Athletes, a movement of professional athletes who donate to highly effective charities.


Chapters

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:06:50 - Overlap of Tennis and Poker

00:13:56 - Dynamic Between Pro Tennis Players

00:22:00 - How competitiveness changes with age

00:29:08 - Strategies of Pro Players

00:31:11 - Competition As Young Athlete

00:31:57 - Playing Doubles

00:51:52 - Technology and Tennis

01:00:00 - Evolution of Tennis

01:05:44 - Moloch Traps in Tennis

01:11:10 - Enhanced Olympics

01:19:57 - Tennis Payout Structures

01:28:00 - High Impact Athletes and Philanthropy

01:49:43 - Kindest Things Someone Has Done

01:51:53 - Proudest Moment


Links

♾️ High Impact Athletes

https://www.highimpactathletes.org/

♾️ Marcus Daniell Twitter

https://twitter.com/marcusdaniell

♾️ Giving What We Can Pledge

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge

Credits

♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree

♾️ Produced by Raymond Wei

♾️ Edit and Audio Mix by Ryan Kessler


The Win-Win Podcast:

Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.

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