Mirza Yawar Baig – How to become the Best

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The speaker discusses the importance of thoughtful practice in golfing, including the use of a book called "immediate nothing" and the importance of learning to be clear and intentional. They also mention a video about the Tiger Woods of the world and encourage the audience to start thinking about it.

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			Talent is overrated. How many of
you think that is an outrageous
		
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			statement?
		
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			Let me make another one.
		
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			Practice does not make perfect.
Practice makes permanent.
		
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			Thoughtful. Practice
		
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			makes perfect.
		
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			Wolfgang Mozart, the great
composer, one of the greatest of
		
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			all time.
		
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			How many of you believe that he
this was a God given talent for
		
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			him? I
		
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			The truth.
		
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			Wolfgang Mozart started playing
the piano at age three.
		
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			He used to watch his elder sister
nano Mozart playing the piano.
		
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			Nano was a pianist, and she was
also a composer.
		
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			Their father, Leopold Mozart, was
a violinist and a composer, and he
		
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			was focused on making both his
children great musicians.
		
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			Wolfgang Mozart,
		
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			at age five, composed his first
piece of music, a very simple
		
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			piece of music.
		
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			But between age three and age
five, he played, he played the
		
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			piano every day for many hours.
		
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			At age six, his father took both
the children
		
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			on a tour of Europe, and they did
that
		
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			always, many times
		
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			during the store tour, they played
for the nobility, the royalty of
		
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			Europe.
		
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			They had access to the best
musicians of the time, and Mozart
		
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			grew up in an atmosphere of music
		
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			a dolphin
		
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			swims beautifully.
		
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			Is that a talent,
		
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			or is it the result of being born
in a dolphin family and living in
		
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			the ocean,
		
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			Tiger Woods was born
		
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			not with a silver spoon in his
mouth, but with a Golden miniature
		
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			golf club in his mouth because
Tiger Woods
		
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			got his first golf club hold your
breath at the age of six months,
		
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			not years,
		
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			because his father was an expert
golfer,
		
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			and he was also single mindedly
focused on making his his son into
		
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			a champion golfer.
		
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			So at age six months, he gets his
first golf club.
		
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			At age three, he goes to the first
golf club
		
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			and tees off on a green. But
between six months and three
		
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			years, Little Tiger Woods is
playing golf every single day of
		
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			his life.
		
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			How many swings did he take?
		
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			How many mulligans did he have to
give up? And
		
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			then from the age of three,
		
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			we have what we know,
		
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			and that's what brings me to this
word, thoughtful practice. My
		
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			first statement, talent is
overrated, is the title of a book
		
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			by Jeff Colwyn, which I strongly
recommend that you read. It has a
		
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			lot of case studies. The two I
mentioned to you are from that
		
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			thoughtful practice. Is this is a
term that he uses in that book,
		
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			thoughtful practice, hitting 10
golf balls, thoughtfully meaning
		
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			with a conscious intent. And
according to a system,
		
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			with a conscious instant, and
according to a system is better
		
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			than hitting 1000 golf balls with
your mind somewhere else.
		
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			And that I with that, I want to
introduce you to another book
		
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			by Malcolm Gladwell, called
outliers and to his concept
		
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			of
		
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			10,000 hours
		
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			combining the 210 1000 hours of
thoughtful practice.
		
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			Is the difference between somebody
who does something for 4000 hours,
		
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			for 6000 hours, for 8000 hours and
for 10,000 hours. The difference
		
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			between 8000 hours and 10,000
hours is exponential.
		
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			Read that book as well.
		
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			My submission to you, therefore,
is
		
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			it's never too late to start to do
what you really want to achieve in
		
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			life,
		
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			provided
		
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			you are clear headed in your mind
		
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			that you are ready for thoughtful
practice and for hours and hours
		
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			and hours and hours and hours of
that.
		
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			It's not easy. But then
		
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			ask yourself,
		
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			is it worth
		
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			being the majority of the Tiger
Woods of your world?
		
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			Because I want to end with my
quote,
		
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			anything done
		
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			with conscious intent,
		
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			and according to a system, gives
value added results. You pick up a
		
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			20 kilo suitcase from the luggage
Caruso
		
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			at an airport, and you throw out
your back.
		
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			You pick up the same 20 kilograms
in a gym,
		
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			according to a system,
thoughtfully
		
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			under the eye of a coach, and you
build muscles.
		
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			One breaks your back, the other
one strengthens your back.
		
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			The weight is the same. You are
the same. The difference
		
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			is you do it thoughtfully,
		
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			consciously, and you do it
according to a system.
		
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			Thank you very much. Have a great
life. You.