Golf Donkey

Just happen to know a person, who is also an enthusiastic golfer. I learned something from this person.

Among average people who love to play golf, there are basically two type of golfers. Those that enjoy playing and those that play to enjoy. The first type is the golfers that like playing, play golf as a routine and repeatitively playing the same game over and over again. The second type is the golfers that play golf to enjoy, difference is the second type constantly search for changes and is capable of doing self improvement.

Just happen to know a person, who is also an enthusiastic golfer. This person love playing and love practicing, but his score has been constant even before the babies-boom has begun. I figure the problem lie within the mindset. This person belongs to the first type, who enjoy playing and enjoy practicing, but all these activities are just repeating the same routine over and over again. From a logical point of view, when the input does not change, the output will definitely remain same.

I remember as a kid I saw this cartoon of fooling a donkey to continuning walking on the threadmill by hanging a carrot in front of it. The donkey will just continue walking, enjoying every bit of the time while thinking one day it can eat the carrot.