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The Big Idea
Federer’s stories and messages are universal: engaging in self-competition, nit being singularly defined, forging your own path, and recognizing the collective. (Wrote about that here.)
“In tennis, perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. Now, I have a question for all of you… what percentage of the POINTS do you think I won in those matches? (WAIT FOR IT👇)
Only 54%.
👉In other words, even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play. When you lose every second point, on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot.”
And the transcript is here.
Making Big Ideas Usable
There were four lessons he cited in his speech that are relevant to remaking schools and other spaces of meaningful learning.2 He called them tennis lessons for life- and they are especially applicable to changes we can make in schools.