Golf mentality

One of the most important things about getting good score on the course of playing golf is the mentality of the player.

Mentality of golf is the same as mentality of any other sports or in life. It requires the player to know their strength and limit. So they can avoid pushing the limit and make the most out of their strength to achieve the goals that they have set. Everyone has thier own path of success, it will not be the same for 2 people.

However, people who just started playing golf are often being mislead by the golf industry to hit the ball as hard as possible because the pro players are being measured by how far they can drive, not how accurate their shots are. Very often, this leads to over the top or harder swing. In result, they drove shorter and developed bad habits along the way. People who have played golf for a while will gradually understand the important of not over do any of these but it usually is too late for them to correct the mistake they have developed.

The right mentality of golf are and not limited to:

1) Do not over do. Know what you can do and keep doing it. Swinging harder does not directly translate into more yardages.
2) Believe that you can't do what other people can do. Every person is different. Not every one is Tiger Wood, or Michael Jordan but it doesn’t mean that you can’t win. If Tiger Wood or Michael Jordan are not supposed to lose, then there would be no sports.
3) Know your strength and keep practicing your strength. Once you have mastered your strength then moved on to your weakness. Your strength is what will keep you confident and also what will save you on a bad round of golf on anyday.

If one can do all of the above, then the game of golf will be more enjoyable.

Failure quotes by famous people

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

•Mrs. Charles E. Cowman To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

•James Allen All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

•Jean-Paul Sartre No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

•Amar Gopal Bose He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

•Joseph Heller Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

•Walter Brunell Success is never final, but failure can be.

•Bill Parcells Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

•George Washington Carver I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

•Michael Jordan Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

•Confucius The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

•Francis Picabia You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

•Walt Disney Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

•Rosalind Russell My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

•Abraham Lincoln Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.

•George R. Tilton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

•George S. Patton There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

•Barbara Ward Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

•German Proverb A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

•J. Paul Getty Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

•Tony Richardson Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

•Louis Boone Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

•Jim Rohn There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

•Laurence J. Peter If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

•Robert H. Schuller Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

•Truman Capote There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

•Sri Swami Sivananda Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.

•Joe Paterno Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

•Robert Louis Stevenson Failures are like skinned knees -- painful, but superficial.

•H. Ross Perot I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

•Herbert B. Swope Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

•Zig Ziglar A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure by Oscar Wilde

I heard this quote watching one of the episodes of the CSI TV series. At the end of the episode, the lead scientist of the crime lab was asked if he has ambition to take on more responsibilities in the same sense of a promotion. The lead scientist replied, “Ambition is the last refuge of failures”.

Being as curious as I am, I started looking into this quote from the internet and try to find out its exact meaning. It returns different meanings.

Some said, it means that ambition breeds failure because through ambition that one is more finely tuned to failure.

Some said it’s through failure one becomes more ambitious.

Some also said, it means exactly what it’s read. Ambition is the last protection or shelter of failure. So, failures are OK when there are still ambitions.

I thought ambition is what gives the person the will to success. But this quote almost implies the exact opposite of that point. It’s almost saying that one will eventually fail if he has ambitions. It's really contradictory.

Ups and downs in life

Life is like a roller coaster, there are ups and there are downs. That's really what makes life interesting and the unpredictable part of it also makes life miserable and sometime exciting.

There is an old chinese saying, it translates to, "Don't give up when fail and don't be proud when success". This is a great sentence because a lot of success come after failures. Downs are always followed by ups which is true for almost everything in life. The most important thing is, don't repeat the same mistake twice.

Downs should be viewed as a motivation to get to higher ground and ups should be viewed as an alert for getting lazy or slowing down.