I saw a video today with Roger Federer addressing a student graduation.
He talked about the 1,526 matches that he had played (at that point).
He’d won almost 80% of those matches.
And become one of the most successful tennis players of all time.
Have a guess what percentage of individual points he’d won?
Go on, actually have a guess.
54%
Probably not as high as you thought, yeah?
It wasn’t as many as I thought.
I’ve just Googled and found out that all the top tennis players have won approximately that percentage of points.
A quick Google tells me the following average point win percentage for different world ranked players;
50th – 52%
100th – 50%
500th – 48%
Which I think is fascinating.
To go from 500 in the world and never be heard of to the most successful tennis players of all time, you only need to win 6% more of your games.
To me, there are two big takeaways from this:
1. It probably doesn’t need to be as good as you’re telling yourself in order to get results.
We don’t need anywhere near perfection, just something that is ‘enough’.
2. The big gains can come from just doing something a little bit better while we’re already doing it.
Not extra stuff that takes extra time.
But just making a slightly better food choice while you’re already spending that amount of time sourcing and eating it.
Just giving a little bit more to our workout while we’re already doing it (I’ll help you with that – get more from your workouts whilst enjoying and wanting to do them more —> www.myrise.co.uk/).
Perfection isn’t needed.
It just needs to be good enough.
And there’s huge value in just doing it a little bit better while we’re already doing it.
Remember, understanding the concept of winning points in tennis can be applied beyond the court, emphasizing incremental improvements in our daily lives.
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Much love,
Jon ‘Studio’ Hall
