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