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There’s a great profile of Tom Watson in the new Golf Digest
I found this bit on how he viewed golf when he got into it pretty interesting:
“I played for money,” he says flatly. “To make the top 60. To not have to Monday-qualify anymore. To stop being a rabbit.”
A tremendous visual. Chasing is a thrill but it’s exhausting work and you can’t do it forever or you’ll burn out.
Eventually you have to catch what you’re chasing and then fend off everybody else trying to get it.
I enjoyed this from Biz Stone in Things a Little Bird Told Me:
My dictionary defines opportunity as a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something. The world has conditioned us to wait for opportunity, have the good sense to spot it, and hope to strike at the appropriate time.
But if opportunity is just a set of circumstances, why are we waiting around for the stars to align? Rather than waiting and pouncing with a high degree of failure, you might as well go ahead and create the set of circumstances on your own. If you make the opportunity, you’ll be first in position to take advantage of it.
A few thoughts:
• This is easier said than done but if you can pull it off it pretty much always works.
• This is reminder No. 39,094 that what we have been conditioned to do by the world is not necessarily what’s best.
• Stone quit college because he got a job during the middle of college that he went to college to get. He called it “skipping three grades.” People see college as a life-changing thing but it’s really just a means to an end.
Love this quote from @99u “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein
— Bill Handy (@billhandy) September 16, 2014
I heard this at the end of a Dave Ramsey talk on saving for retirement and I really loved it:
“Diligence is excellence over time.”
Very simple, nothing special, but definitely a powerful thought.
I honestly feel like I could have written most of the things that are on the Internet. Most of it is garbage, really. I can do garbage.
I cannot do this, though:
“There were all these moments in the first half. Passages where our guys would go rocketing forward, just action-verbing the living fuck out of the universe, and Clint Dempsey would bludgeon a shot a hair above the goal, and then Portugal would get the ball back, and roll it out to the wing, and just kind of stand there with it because there were no options. They would stand there with it in such an aristocratic way, though. It was like, Why, hello there, we are a European soccer team. And then we would get it back and go joyriding back down the pitch like, OH REALLY, BECAUSE WE’RE NOT.”
I’M reading a book right now entitled The Sisters Brothers. It’s really good and really clever and really fun.
This might be my favorite line from the book thus far. It’s by one of the brothers after delivering a red bear pelt to a pelt trader in the early 20th century:
He handed me two coins and I took them. I decided I would spend the money even more carelessly than usual. What would the world be, I thought, without money hung around our necks, hung around our very souls?
-Eli Sisters
“Common sense is that layer of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen.”
– Albert Einstein
This quote…man.
Those who travel with the current will always feel they are good swimmers; those who swim against the current may never realize they are better swimmers than they imagine.”
– Shankar Vedantam in The Hidden Brain
I might not subscribe to a diverse array of ideals but I agree with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s viewpoint that one should at least be open.
Here’s what he said:
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and retain the ability to function.”
My high school baseball coach used to tell us “don’t copy the way one person swings or throws — take bits and pieces that you like from everyone and apply it to your own self.”
I think the same thing applies here.