Episode 249： How To Master A Skill
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Summary
One of the most frustrating things about the game of golf is that so few of us master it. How do we master it? Why do we struggle so much with it? And why is it that once we figure it out, we actually start enjoying the game?
Transcript
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30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
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the sky, touch the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Patrick Bedeby, your host of Alutainment, and in today's short episode, we will be talking
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Have you ever seen somebody, maybe it could be their golf swing, maybe it could be somebody
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shooting a basketball, or it could be somebody's baseball swing, or whatever it could be, and
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they make it seem so easy, and just like so, you know, as if they're not even putting any
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It's an effortless type of thing they're doing.
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And then you go out there and do it as an amateur, and it looks nothing like what that person did.
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I want you to think about the first time you did anything, whatever it could be.
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How embarrassing were you at doing that first time of whatever that thing is?
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I mean, I think about the first time I did a lot of things.
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My goodness, if there was a video of it, I'd be laughing all day long if I could watch
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Well, last week, I had the opportunity of spending some time with an instructor, a golf
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And he and I were sitting down and having a conversation together.
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And he said, you know, the game of golf is very annoying and very frustrating.
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He says, well, because it's going an 80 mile an hour swing and you're supposed to hit the
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small ball and all the small little angles could dictate which direction the ball is going
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So I said, when does one really start enjoying the game of golf?
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He said, one learns and enjoys the game of golf when you know why the ball went where it went.
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He said, as an amateur, you get up and you try to hit the ball, you miss the ball, right?
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And if you make a contact, it goes right or it goes left.
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He says, once you learn why the ball is going to the right and why the ball is going to the
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left, you get to actually enjoy it because your next swing, you just make a minor adjustment.
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Maybe your head's moving more than two or three inches.
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Maybe your weight is on your heels instead of your toes, 70-30.
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Maybe the ball's not aligned to right with your left foot if you're hitting a driver.
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He says, but once you figure that out, you actually get a chance to enjoy the game.
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That's exactly what it is to be an entrepreneur and a businessman.
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You know, you sit there and you wonder, why is this thing not working for me?
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You got to make him, boom, you start enjoying the game again.
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So you don't mind if a certain number is going lower or higher, but you know why that thing's
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This concept is true in many aspects of our lives.
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You could say my lower back is having problems.
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And you hire a personal trainer and say that has nothing to do with your lower back.
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You need to work on your abs and your hamstring.
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You go talk to somebody and they say, no, it's because of communication.
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No, it's because you're spending too much money with the barbecues you do every other
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But once you figure out why it is that you're having those challenges you're having and you
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make minor little tweaks here and there, you start really enjoying the game of life.
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You just got to figure out what those tweaks are that you need to make.
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