In this episode, Scott Becker uses a personal golf slump as a metaphor to explore the broader challenge of overcoming setbacks.
Chapter 1: What is the golf metaphor used in this episode?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion, I'm going to use golf as a metaphor. Golf, grind or reflect. And this could be the same as anything that you're doing when you get into a slump. So currently I'm in a spot where you're not even supposed to say this as you're a golfer, but I'm shanking everything. I'm not shanking the long clubs.
Chapter 2: Why is Scott Becker struggling with his golf game right now?
I'm shanking every short clubs. And if I have any strength in my game, it's typically the short part of the game. And right now I can't hit a thing. And so the concept is, you know, you can't even get around the golf course.
Chapter 3: How does it feel to be in a golf slump?
It's just so embarrassing when you're shanking stuff, you feel like, uh, you know, a, um, I can't use the word, but you feel like a mental midget probably is a good way to say it just like a mental midget. Yeah. So try to get back at it. And the question is, do you grind through a bunch of lessons and a bunch of practices trying to find your stroke and find your sort of rhythm?
Chapter 4: Should you grind through practice or take a break when facing setbacks?
Or do you reflect and take a day off and stay away from the golf course, stay away from the practice range, stay away from whatever it is? In this case, I probably should stay away a little bit, but it's really the same in anything that you do.
How do you sort of resurface yourself, re-get yourself into good mind space, a good mental space, a good physical space, so you're not totally just whacking at things and messing them up? That's how we feel right now. So the concept is grind or reflect. Probably need a little bit of both, but certainly just grinding at it doesn't seem to be helping.
So it's probably time to take a step back and just relax. You look at it when you see yourself on screen at a lesson and hitting the golf ball and you look like a mental midget, for lack of a better word, choice, or for not being able to use the word choice, I want to use.
But in any event, grind or reflect, today's theory, can you relax yourself enough to take a step back and just relax, not just try and grind, grind, grind, to try and find your stroke again? I don't know. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity Business Podcast. If you could relate to this, when whatever you're doing seems to have just fallen off the cliff, fallen apart,
and you're the first person to text Scott Becker at 773-766-5322. I am struggling. The struggle is real. I will send you a $100 Amazon gift certificate. You've got to be the first person to text Scott Becker and reflect on this at the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you very much for joining us.
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