"This is bad. Let me explain why. Every sport instills and rewards certain personality traits. In basketball, the most important are hustle, determination and teamwork, which — believe me — get harder when you get older and are playing with twenty- and thirty-somethings. Sure, every now and then I still get a hot hand and drain three or four long shots in a row. But most of the time I don’t make those shots. Instead, I have to just work hard, grab rebounds, play tough defense, hustle up the court on fast breaks and make sure I hit my open teammates with passes. In basketball, these things make a difference — a steal or a key offensive rebound can turn the game around. Trying harder matters.
Golf is the opposite. For players of modest abilities (such as the president and myself), effort and determination are worse than useless. Every golfer knows the feeling of hitting a few bad shots and telling himself just to try harder and be more focused. The result? Your shots get worse because you tense up and throw your swing off completely. All manner of chunks, hooks, shanks and other horrors result. Golf requires, instead, a zen-like acceptance that the results are largely out of your hands. Relax, hit the ball and don’t worry much about where it goes."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-needs-to-bring-back-his-basketball-hustle/2014/11/13/a7982e1e-6ab9-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html?hpid=z2
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