All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street.
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.