{"id":720,"date":"2007-08-27T23:27:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T03:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/08\/27\/blink-and-my-new-style-of-serve\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T23:27:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T03:27:22","slug":"blink-and-my-new-style-of-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Blink &#8230; and my new style of serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=170\">new serve<\/a> over the weekend &#8211; without any practice &#8211; did well.\u00a0 Only couple of more doubles than usual, which surprised me.\u00a0 (I had many doubles on Sunday afternoon when I played at a party, after 3 serious hours of playing in the morning &#8211; I was so poppped.)\u00a0 So years ago&#8217;s advice actually blossomed, although I never thought of making use of it.<\/p>\n<p>Couple\u00a0of weeks ago, there&#8217;s book review on Gerd Gigerenzer&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Gut Feelings <\/em>by Catherine Arnst (Business Week 8\/20).\u00a0 It sounds very familiar with a book I read few years ago &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=14475\">Blink<\/a>.\u00a0 No coincident, by 3rd paragraph, the reviewers mentioned that <em>Blink<\/em>&#8216;s author Gladwell drew heavily on Gigerenzer&#8217;s research.\u00a0 Every time when I committed\u00a0a double fault\u00a0in tennis, I thought of <em>Blink<\/em>: we all develope\u00a0an innate and unconscious rules that govern our negotiation in life &#8211; most of those doubles are made when I thought of making it, not I wanted to make it.\u00a0 Like telling myself, oh no, don&#8217;t double fault.\u00a0 And I was not flexible (or quick) enough to avoid making it.\u00a0 Is this the thin line distinguish a good player from a great player?\u00a0 This theory not just applies to\u00a0tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played with\u00a0new serve over the weekend &#8211; without any practice &#8211; did well.\u00a0 Only couple of more doubles than usual, which surprised me.\u00a0 (I had many doubles on Sunday afternoon when I played at a party, after 3 serious hours of playing in the morning &#8211; I was so poppped.)\u00a0 So years ago&#8217;s advice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}