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Rating: - Get out of your own way... enjoy golf!
I love all golf books: biographies, histories, instruction, especially sports psychology/ peak performance... Guy Rotella, Richard Coop, Zen Golf, and even hardcore Csikeszentmihalyi... I love them all. This book I love the most since it has helped me with my game the most. I still revere the others for the great golf stories and thoughts, but this is tops.Deepak has brought "mindfullness" to the masses in a long string of books... he has fine tuned his craft and skills. Deepak has utilized those skills to help make this book effective and palatable to the golf masses... key being "effective". His history and experience helping people has led through example, story, and recommended practices, to real, action-able solutions for the golf game. Sounds corny but my life and game has improved... my enjoyment of golf has massively improved! (I am one who's scores bounced just above 80 but not breaking through... pushing, pushing for that (ego) kept me from both letting it fly and enjoyhing the game) A key concept that has lightened it all (golf, family, work) up for me is "leela"... life, though serious, is a game... not mortal combat, not suicide. Wheh. Also, a Bobby Jones quotes, 'a lot of people mistake worry for concentration', and 'golf is most enjoyed when played well'. I'd rather have wildly high emotions than 17 holes of wildly low emotions. NOTE: "Mindfullness" does not mean you have to play boring, iron off the tee Grandpa Golf to avoid the big number... it means being 'mindful' of what you are trying to do... going for the lowest possible score with lowest variability, or going for the lowest possible score and the thrill of the miracle shot... it leads you to accept your goal and let go (eg. if you go for the 250 yd 3wd over water to get on in two, and it goes in the water, you don't try to break your club) I feared that "good" golf would be "boring" golf.
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