Epilogue What Does Passion Have to Do with Performance?

Let me give you another perspective on consistency and performance. As I started to become more consistent at reproducing the mechanics of a good golf swing on the golf improvement project, I found myself asking longerrange questions.

These included questions related to what I was really doing out on the golf course. Was it just an exercise to make sure my friend Bob didn’t beat me during our marathon golf week to celebrate his sixtieth birthday? If so, what would happen after? Was I going to just walk away from the game again when all this was over?

By asking these questions, I realized that consistency would not be enough to keep me interested in this game. The way my mind works, once ...

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