63. Read, Reflect, Refine

Last year, I read a book by Novak Djokovic called “Serve to Win”. Novak Djokovic is not an author. He’s a tennis player. In fact, one of the greatest tennis players of all time. After reading his book, I thought to myself “he’ll probably have to stick to winning tennis tournaments”. It wasn’t good, but I’m always intrigued by books about and by world class performers, which is why I read the book. In this instance, reading the book further cemented something I already believed to be an important consideration when gathering information.

Just because it worked for the world number 1 tennis player, doesn’t mean it will work for you too.

Furthermore, just because it worked for me doesn’t mean it will work for you and vice versa.

Jim Rohn said it best: “Don’t be a follower, be a student.” “Come to your own conclusions.”

Novak Djokovic became the best tennis player in the world, and he wrote a book about how he did it. It’s quite interesting, but his advice was more or less “be like me.” If you’d like to know what that entails I’ll just tell you. Go on an extremely strict gluten and dairy free diet.

I know you’re probably not trying to become the best tennis player in the world, but what if you were? Would you think to yourself “Novak did it this way and it worked so I guess I better too.”?