Unlock happiness: The secret to managing your expectations
In this episode of the Better Golf Academy, we find out through research that we are terrible predictors of our own happiness after the round. And the key factor in our growth and the enjoyment of the game is all wrapped around in this thing called expectations. It’s up to us to set the right expectations to help us get better and to help us win.
I was watching a TedTalk the other day given by an entrepreneur and economist named Nat Ware. He’s a Rhodes Scholar based at Oxford University whose research focuses on social impact, poverty alleviation and the economics of happiness. And so...he seems really smart and has done a lot of research on this subject so I decided to listen.
And, as soon as I started listening, what intrigued me was his very first opening line. He said this…He said...”I remember being shocked the first time I went to Africa. I was shocked when I met a one-legged taxi driver in Kenya. I was shocked when I met Sonia an orphan schoolgirl in Rwanda. And I was shocked when I met a disabled subsistence farmer in Mozambique. What shocked me wasn’t their poverty, but their happiness.
So, what does this have to do with golf? There's a key lesson here about EXPECTATIONS that will blow you away.
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