Friday, July 26, 2019
26A - Celebrating Failure
This past semester I began playing golf in my free time. I always figured golf was not very hard. I had played a few times in the past but never very seriously. It was the beginning of spring semester, I went golfing with my friend, who is a very good golfer. At the first hole, I knew I was in trouble when I hit the first ball. It went straight into the bushes. We played nine holes that day and I lost around a dozen ball in the bushes. I was a awful golfer. I did have a fun time on the golf course and decided I wanted to play more. I returned several times to the golf course throughout the semester and began getting better. Each time I played I learned something I was doing wrong and corrected it. Failing is hard. When I played my first match I felt angry that I played so bad. I was embarrassed how terrible I played. Rather than never trying golf again, I kept trying it to get better. This class changed my perspective on failure. I helped me to learn that failing is fine, but you need to learn from it. I think failure is a good thing. It is a great feeling when you fail at something, but then fix it and get better.
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Hello Dylan,
ReplyDeleteGolfing isn't as easy as it looks and it takes years and years of practice to actually become a competitive golfer. It takes so much time for your body to develop a feel on power, and is seems like you never hit the ball exactly how you wanted. Many people can hit the ball hard and make it go far but can you control your power when your closer to the whole and can you make it go straight. Its obviously very frustrating loosing balls and missing shots but it's the way you look at your failures and mistakes and see how you can learn from them and what am I doing that’s causing the ball to get left or right or whatever it may be. Trail and error is what makes you become a better golfer.