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Swing easier
The lesson that fixed my golf game, and why it keeps showing up everywhere else.
No schedule and no content calendar. Each one exists because something happened that was worth thinking through properly. The first drafts cover swinging easier, the long middle where nothing works, what a coach knows, making the bed, and being your own opponent.
The lesson that fixed my golf game, and why it keeps showing up everywhere else.
On the long middle where nothing is visibly working, and why it decides everything.
Holding a standard for a person is a different job than having an opinion about a problem.
Why the smallest unglamorous habit is the one I would keep if I could only keep one.
The thing golf tells you that team sports never will.
These go up when they are done.
Five drafts are in progress: Swing easier, about the lesson that fixed his golf game; The stretch nobody posts about, on the long middle where nothing is visibly working; What a coach knows; Make the bed, on the smallest habit he would keep; and You are the opponent, on what golf tells you that team sports never will.
There is no schedule and no content calendar. Each piece exists because something happened that was worth thinking through properly, and it goes up when it is done. That is the same reason he chose a living website over a book: he can add and revise as he learns, rather than publishing to a deadline.
It is about the lesson that fixed his golf game and why it keeps showing up everywhere else. A PGA Tour pro taught him a three quarter punch with a little cut, he stopped swinging at full effort and started swinging at 60 or 70 percent, and his handicap went from 12 to 14 down to a 3. The broader idea is that control beats force.
Because it is the smallest unglamorous habit, and small unglamorous things decide everything downstream. On the golf page he compares it to taking the club that is not the longest but is the most strategic: nobody claps for it, and it works. Do the boring thing first is the first of his lessons for the same reason.