Commitment itself reveals the path
- Rahul Taparia

- 3 days ago
- 1 min read

In tennis, when you decide to attack that ball, your body doesn't wait for your conscious mind to calculate angles and footwork. The decision itself triggers a cascade of automatic adjustments - weight transfer, positioning, muscle memory - all optimizing for that aggressive intention.
The business translation works similarly:
When you genuinely commit to aggressive growth, your mind starts pattern-matching differently. You suddenly notice partnership opportunities you'd have overlooked. That networking event you'd normally skip becomes obviously valuable. A pricing conversation that would've felt uncomfortable now feels necessary. Your brain starts filtering the world through "what serves growth?" rather than "what feels safe?"
The key parallels:
Hesitation destroys both shots. In tennis, if you're 50/50 on whether to attack, you end up in no-man's-land with poor positioning. In business, half-committed growth attempts drain resources without the follow-through needed to succeed.
The body/organization self-organizes around the decision. Your tennis body knows how to attack once you commit. Similarly, when you really decide on aggressive growth, you find yourself naturally: making bolder asks, hiring before you feel "ready," spending on visibility, having harder conversations with underperforming elements.
You have to decide before you see the full path. You commit to the aggressive shot before your feet are set. You commit to 10x growth before knowing exactly how you'll get there - but the commitment itself reveals the path.
The mistake most make: waiting to "feel ready" for aggressive growth, just like waiting to feel perfectly positioned before deciding to attack in tennis. But readiness emerges from commitment, not before it.
What specific growth decision are you circling around right now?





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