What Does it Mean to Perform?

How many games do you expect to win the next time you play pickleball? All of them? Most of them? Half?

Extend that out: what win percentage would you be satisfied with over your pickleball playing career? Would you be happy with winning about 50% of the time?

It is common to react with a “No” here. After all, why should 50% be an acceptable result.

But reflect on that for a moment. If your win rate is more than 50%, what happens to the win rates of your fellow players (most of whom are your friends)? If your win rate for all time is 80%, that does not leave a lot of winning for anyone else.

Seems odd, doesn’t it?

Having a better perspective on what it means to perform – in terms of our results – can help us avoid needless pitfalls in how we feel about ourselves and our pickleball experience.

We explore this in more depth during this week’s episode of the Pickleball Therapy podcast. Find it on Apple, Spotify, or at BetterPickleball.com under “Free Insights.”

See you there.

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