10 Life Lessons To Learn From Andre Agassi's Book "Open"

Andre Agassi describes winning as very anti-climatic. He explains that losing is the hardest part because it lasts ten times longer than the winning feeling. 

We expect the good feeling of winning and achieving to last a long time, but it never does. Remember that everything we do in life is typically to chase some positive feeling.

One of Andre Agassi’s career challenges was that he was trying to hit a winning ball every time. Towards the end of his career, he learned that not winning every ball, and remaining steady and consistent was far more crucial to him winning.

Rather than win at every task you do, try to remain consistent and concentrate on getting just that little bit better with a solid routine of habits.

When Andre Agassi describes becoming number one, he says that he felt nothing. Even when winning important games, he describes the feeling as only lasting a short time.

You can’t rely on winning to be your day-to-day motivation. You have to be able to live a fantastic day every day even if you haven’t won or achieved anything significant.

Fighting our pain and relieving other people’s pain is why we’re here.

When we help people through their struggles, it helps us with our own. 

Without fear, we would lose the fire to succeed at our dream.

When we become fearless, we become unmotivated and on the brink of failure. Let fear motivate you rather than stop you from getting where you want to go.

When we think too much, we block ourselves from achieving our goal. We have to learn to use our intuition and feel our way through challenges.

There’s a time for thinking, and there is a time for feeling.