WEBVTT - How Your Personality Shapes Your Golf Game 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.880 Welcome back to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.440 Today's episode is brought to you by the Frida Egg 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:12.520 Pro Shop. We have a bunch of new stuff in 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:16.000 the pro Shop, one of which is the new frieda 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.760 Egg hoodie. We put our alternate logo that you may 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.040 have seen at the ends of some videos on a hoodie. 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.320 It's a beautiful illustration done by Cameron Hurtis, who does 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.280 some of our video editing and a lot of our 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.040 graphic design. It is an awesome hoodie. They are very soft, 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:41.440 extremely comfortable, the perfect spring item to have. 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Kyle is a PGA pro, 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:21.119 a teaching pro He has been my teacher for nearly 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.600 a decade, although I have not gone and gotten a 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.280 lesson in a few years. Kyle is one of the 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:33.399 brightest young minds in golf instruction. He's been on Golf 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.720 Digest list of top teachers under the age of forty 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.880 for a few years running. He has come up with 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.400 a new system called the Mental Golf Type and it's 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.280 all centered around personality traits. So I'm sure many of 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.960 you that work in an office or team setting at 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:55.360 your job are aware of personality tests and you know 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.880 they help you work with different people in a workplace. Well, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.920 this he's over to golf and I had never really 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.480 thought of it, but then Kyle kind of talked to 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.960 me about the stuff he'd been working on, and I 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.480 took the personality test and sure enough, like it, like 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.120 hits exactly what type of golfer I am, where I 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.400 have struggles everything. So I had Kyle on we talked 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:23.960 about this personality test and personality based things with golf 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.440 and how you should approach it. He has a Instagram 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:32.440 page at a Mental Golf Type. I'd recommend following that 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.440 and then you know, if you're interested, check out his website. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.080 There's a free personality test there and you can kind 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.640 of get started into looking into, you know, different things 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.600 and tendencies and how you should, you know, go about 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.799 playing better golf. So this is a little bit different 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:51.880 than our standard episode, but I found the topic extremely fascinating, 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.480 so I figured you guys would too. Without further ado, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.120 here is Kyle Alderink I. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.239 Miss a green, for example, upset when I find my 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:02.920 ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:03.960 And when I find my. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.959 Ball in a bright egg Friday egg, the dreaded Frida egg, 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.200 Frida egg egg bride egg lie, I'm. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:34.800 About ready to run off the golf course. Uh mental 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.200 golf type. What does that mean? 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.560 Well, it's just putting it right on blast there at 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.160 the beginning. I love it. I mean essentially, what it 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.240 means is everybody's not the same. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.280 I mean, that's the easiest and simplest way to put it, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.840 you know, But in terms of mental game performance, everybody 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.120 kind of tries to lump everybody into the same category. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.000 And you know, when I really was diving into uh 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.360 sports psychology and mental game and performance and all that stuff, 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.240 I realized the message was always the same and It 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.480 never really made sense to me because you just, I mean, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.560 you talk to enough people, dude, like nobody's really wired. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:13.360 The same way. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.480 How people play, how people perform is going to be different, 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.880 especially when you see different personalities on the tours. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:19.640 I mean you see your. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.839 Bryson's and you see your Justin Thomas's and your Dustin's 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.600 and Lexi Thompson's. I mean, everybody's just got their own 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.159 kind of way of doing things. And what I really 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.160 noticed was, you know, it was the ones at the 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.640 higher level that were the ones kind of being okay 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.280 being them. It was the ones on the lower tours, 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.200 the minis or college trying to work their way up, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.640 that was trying to follow everybody else's way of doing things. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.240 So I always found that kind of fascinating, and you know, 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.840 getting deeper into it, you know, the I guess the 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.400 little bit of the background is I came across this guy, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.280 John Weir, who introduced me to personality types and how 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.400 that and how these facets of our personality affect everything. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.240 I met when he was working with Mike Bender as 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.719 a lead academy, and you know what he showed me 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.000 kind of just rock my world. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.320 Man. It changed my whole way of thinking. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.840 Yeah, so obviously, like anybody that works in an office 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.520 can relate to this. I remember a couple of my 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:19.040 jobs we did personality tests and just understanding how your colleagues, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.480 what their types of personalities they are, help you work 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.280 with somebody better. So I imagine golf is no different, 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.960 whether it's you're working with an instructor, you're working with 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.919 a you know, a physio you're working, or you're just 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.200 working on yourself, working on becoming a better player. Understanding 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.680 your strength and weaknesses as a person and your your 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.600 type of personality, how you take in information is very 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.440 important on the golf side. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.599 Well for sure, you know, and people don't like to 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.360 be lumped in a box. My argument's always been everybody's 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.600 been lumped into a box, especially into that. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.760 But it's the application that is really unique to what 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.799 mental golf type does. And you know, I've seen personality 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.280 stuff around even as a coach, where you know, people 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.280 would offer, hey, this person you need to be more 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.520 gentle with and things like that, but it never really 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.400 gave an application of how does this help players perform better? 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.680 And you know what John introduced me to, which was 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.119 really the game Changers is stress is really what tanks 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.880 everybody's performance. Like you and I know because we've talked 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.479 about it for so long, it's not your swing breaking down, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.840 Like your swing doesn't change that much. You know, if 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.080 you look at Jordan's speed through his struggles, his swing 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.200 didn't look a whole lot different, if any different than 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.240 when he was number one in the world. But like 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.240 stress and what stresses players and the effects that the 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.120 body goes through is really what's breaking that down. The 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.680 interesting thing is it's unique to everybody. It's unique to 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.320 your personality. Like some people are stressed out by the future, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.359 some people are stressed out by the past. One person's 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.000 still pissed off about the three putt three holes ago, 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.600 while the next person's worried about tanking their you know, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.600 their score three holes ahead. You know, some people are 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.279 getting way too under their swing mechanics. Some people are 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.240 seeing too much where the ball can't go, and that 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.440 stresses them out. Like a really good way to think 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.880 about this is like if you just build the biggest, scariest, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.480 baddest roller coaster on the planet, and like me and 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.240 somebody else is sitting there looking at this thing. One 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.520 person is probably like excited as how running at this thing, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.360 like excited to get on it, and you got me 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:21.720 who's turning around. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.000 The other way running for dear life. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.000 It's the same thing, but how we internalize that is 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.720 totally different. And essentially that's what our personalities are doing. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.480 Like situations the golf course or pressure or anything is presenting, 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.760 people are internalizing that different. So how they use their 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.680 personality is either going to help them get into an 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.920 optimal state of mind or it's going to stress them 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.400 out and tank their performance. Yet they'll run to the 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.400 range and work on their swing because they think they 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.480 got to get their P four better or something. 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.880 So you're you're a golf instructor by trade, you know PGA, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.680 served by golf coach, You've been a teacher, You've been 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.160 on the you know Golf Digest best teachers under forty. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.000 You've got a lot of students, you know, myself being 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.120 one of them. But I've been the most delinquent student 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.080 over the last three years. But you have you know, 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.080 Jordan Han Who's who's got you know, conditional status on 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.560 the web tour, number of college players, number of great 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:19.440 junior players starting to understand mental types and personality traits. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.800 How has that changed the way you coach your different 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.880 players a lot. 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.280 What I started to notice is the students that I did. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.000 Have, the Jordans that use the ones I had for 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.040 a long time that really thrived and not saying nobody 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.280 else did, but you know, the ones that really could 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.240 thrive where you could not play a lot and still 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.079 go qualify for US mid Am or you know, win 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.559 some local stuff. They were my saint personality type. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.480 And it was a lot easier to. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.679 Communicate and get messages across because the stuff that was 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.760 working for me that I thought was the absolute way 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.240 to do it fit that. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.360 In our way, fits what like mental game books coach. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.600 The problem is about seventy five percent of the population 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.480 or more is not even close to like we are, 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.280 So that message kind of falls upon deaf ears. Like 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.080 some people need that aim small and this small and 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.800 need to actually have something in their swing. They think 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.160 about where some people need to get up like Bubba 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:12.960 Watson and say I'm just gonna hit a fade, and 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:13.320 like they. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.559 Need to see bigger targets and zones. I'll give you 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:16.160 an example. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.000 I have two sisters locally here that are both really 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.560 excellent players, both collegiate players, ones going off to college, 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.319 ones starting their college. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.320 Career, and they're why you're totally different. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.520 And I actually just took it, took a video of 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.640 them on the range one day, arguing about exactly what 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.160 we're talking about. One was like, you know, I can't 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.200 look at something so small. I feel so constrained and restricted. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:39.760 We're talking about like lines on the ball. You know, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.440 It's like, I don't even know how you can see 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.439 something so big like that just freaks me out. And 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.400 there's literally argument about the difference of that. But I 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.959 have to talk to them totally different, even though we're 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.560 in the same kind of setting. 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.760 So in a in a real like world setting that 0:09:53.800 --> 0:10:00.600 everybody would understand, you're talking about maybe Bryson versus Dust Johnson. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.360 They just like the way they approach the game of 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:10.200 golf completely different. Both exceptionally talented and both very successful, 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.760 but they couldn't be more extreme. So when it boils 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.400 down the way they practice, the way they approach the game, 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.960 the way they think about where they're hitting shots, to 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.400 the way they're coached needs to be tailored towards their 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:24.600 distinct personalities. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.320 Correct for sure, because that's what motivates them. Their minds 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.920 kind of light up. Like you know, Bubba Watson had 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.040 an article or he was talking about someone told him 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:34.760 that he had a chicken wing in his swing and 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:35.760 he didn't know what that means. 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:36.480 You know. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.040 I like the fear is always if you took someone 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.160 like that and you put them into more of a 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.000 Bryson d. Chambeau way of doing things, very mechanical, scientifical, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.520 we probably would have never heard of Bubba or Jim 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.679 Ferrick or players like that. But again, if you if 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.240 you take a Bryson, you're like, dude, you got to 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.120 get off track, man, and you know you got to 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.679 just play like an athlete type thing. I mean, we're 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.320 probably not hearing a Bryson like he's okay being who 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.840 he is, even though he's pissing some people off. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.240 Mm hm. You know, I think obviously people understand personalities 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:10.120 at a broad scale, like you've got your extroverts in 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.160 your introverts. I think that people understand that so at 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.880 a very basic level, Like you know, if I'm if 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.839 I know I'm an introvert, or if I know I'm 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.560 an extrovert, you know what are the types of things 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.280 that I could just improve by thinking certain ways, or 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.200 what should I stay away from? Should I stay away 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:26.640 from magazine tips? 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.520 You know, Like yeah, no, that's that's a great question. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.760 And the extravert instrovert one I don't think is understood 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.400 all that well. I mean, we just kind of think 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.320 about as talking and not talking essentially, that's what that 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.200 really is is our energy source. Extroverts get really energized, 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.680 like even myself just starting to talk to you, like 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.840 I get very energized, where introverts will get more exhausted 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.400 by that. Like introverts talk a lot, they just typically 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.600 will talk to a close knit circle, like they're just 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.480 not the ones to go socialized with everybody because it 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.559 comes a little bit exhausting. They also just internalize things 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.520 a lot better, so they get clear on ideas more internally. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.280 So one of the simplest things is extroverts should just 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.240 talk shots out loud, even though even if it might 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.319 look them a little crazy. Like one two wins a 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.440 little into me, all right, that's seven iron here we 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.920 go like something like that. We had a guy email 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.840 us that picked up one of our programs and he's like, dude, 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:20.480 just I just went to talk to my shots out loud, 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:21.440 and I shot like thirty nine. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.680 He's like, I've never broken forty five before. He's like, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:24.800 what is going on? 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.400 But like introverts, you know, when they're forced to talk, 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.839 or like in college settings, sometimes college coaches are are 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:33.720 harping on them like, hey, what are we doing on 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.560 the shot? And they're forcing them to talk and not 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.000 letting them be internal, and that stresses them out. Essentially, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.240 introverts should just always have a little bubble of hey, like, 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.240 you know, when I get within ten yards of my ball, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.160 I'm just gonna just focus on my internal details. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.120 Extroverts should always be kind of talking their stuff out. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.679 But again in terms of articles, like it's just knowing 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.680 what to listen to, you know. I mean, Sean Foley 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.960 is a great coach. His stuff is really good for 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.840 a certain popular you know, and so forth, and there's 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.880 coaches out there again there, Hey, you know, track man, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:05.840 you shouldn't use that type thing. And that's why there's 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.200 always this heavy debate because it's really good for some 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.520 not good for others. And it's just knowing where you 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:12.319 fit in that mold. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.360 So you're saying that there isn't one right way to 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.840 approach and play and teach the game that that wouldn't 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.920 bode well, that's almost two reasons for you know, the 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.959 internet discussion right now. You know there has to be 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:25.880 just one way. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.680 Right well for sure, right and I mean then people 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.000 really staunchly believe in their ways and whether it's you know, 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.000 any walk of life. Which we don't want to go 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.920 off topic here, but but that's why there's so much argument, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.200 because it's like, you don't believe what I believe, you 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.959 have to be wrong. But that's the thing, is like 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.200 it's it's different. People are just different, man, and and 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.960 things that work for players are different. That's why I 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.400 had some students that I really cared about earlier in 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.520 my career left and I didn't understand it till now, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.319 is because I wasn't speaking their language. And it was 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.679 probably for the better because they went and did well 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.880 under somebody that coached totally different than I did. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.640 It's almost like that there should be a mandatory personality 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.599 test before you start working with an instructor. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:08.959 Well, and that helps with this, right, I mean, it 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.160 has a lot of applications. Caddy players, coaches, students, parents, students, 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.760 is a huge one, because again, you know, parents and 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.880 kids butt had a lot over some things where you know, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.280 like I had a parent who was just losing his 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.320 mind because his kid wouldn't use a line of sticks 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.560 and he just isn't wired to do that, Like he 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.840 just like he sees shapes of shots, so he's aiming 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:29.600 right and drawing and aiming left of fading, and he's 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.960 like he's aiming left. I'm like, he's playing a fade dude. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:33.720 And like his dad would just lose his mind. He 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.920 didn't understand it, but that's like his way of operating. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.080 When you got those line of sticks down, he was 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.040 just freaking out, Like he got all restricted. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:41.840 He started worrying about his swing too much and he 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:42.920 couldn't hit it on the face. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.160 You know, it's funny. I was talking with a buddy 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.120 who's a good mid end player, and he was telling 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.640 me he was struggling, and he was like, you know, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.920 he was talking about stuff at impact position, and I 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.280 was like, it's so funny you're saying that because like, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.200 I've never won ever thought about how I'm hitting a 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.520 golf ball. And he's like, well, what do you what 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.280 do you think about I'm like, well, I just have 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.160 like the hardest time in the world getting set up 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.000 and getting the club to the top of the swig. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.680 Like that's where all my struggles are, Like I just 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.840 can't set up to a ball. And it's that's when 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.680 we talked, you know about this more. I just like 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.440 it dawned on me. It's like we're just completely opposite 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.480 people and like and this is where it goes to, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.200 like the it adds like fuel to the fire of 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.560 like why are you asking your buddies that you play 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.400 golf with what they're thinking about, because what works for 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.040 them probably is completely different than what works for you. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.160 Well, I mean yeah, that's always my favorite, right when 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:41.600 everybody says, well, what do you think about it? 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.400 When you do this? I mean that can lead down 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:44.440 some dark pasts. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.440 You're the one that I stole the phrase from player envy, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.440 Like I use that all the time after you and 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.760 I talked. I think that's a brilliant word, and I 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.520 deal with that a lot, especially on like the collegiate level. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:57.640 You always kids are you know, somebody else on their 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.800 teams playing well and they're like, dude, dude, what are 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.200 you doing? Like, you know, what are you working on. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.800 So I think players can get lost when they don't 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.880 know those things that are right for them. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:09.760 Yeah. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.680 Yeah, I think like it's it's the whole thing. Like 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:17.160 every golfer is just like your fingerprints, like unique, You're 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.840 unique to yourself. And I think one of the things 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.120 that's interesting with this whole system is it gives you 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.720 a better understanding of yourself and from there then you 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.600 can build how you practice, how you work on your game, 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.360 how you think about the game around that. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:35.840 You know. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.520 So if somebody is interested in really drilling into this, 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.640 they can go to your website mental golf type and 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.000 you have a free test. I just went through it. 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.920 Can you walk us through? You know, it's not just 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.640 an introvert extrovert thing. There's other variables, what what all? 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.120 You know? It's like it took me fifteen minutes to 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.040 do the test, but what are all the different things 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.200 that it pulls out on. 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:00.880 A fifteen minutes? 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:02.440 Man, you must have been lily gag And I mean 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.240 I think legitimately they'll take five. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.160 Minutes, very easily distractable. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.479 So no, no, no, So it's a good question. And 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.479 like you alluded to one, you know, you said, like 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.800 I feel things. So essentially there's four major facets to 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.880 people's personality. There's there's our energy, which we talked about 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:24.720 extrovert introvert. There's our perception and focus. So essentially how 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.399 we're seeing targets, how we're perceiving the world. You know, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.040 what helps us to stress. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.560 Us Like some need to be very darrow, some need 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:31.399 to be broad. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.840 Some need to be thinking more targets, the need thinking 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.000 more about what we call players side, which is swing. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.679 There's how we evaluate and make decisions. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.119 So there's what we call thinkers, which is you know, 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.320 head deciders basically need facts like you're Bryson d. Chambeau 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.639 and need a lot of data. They need kind of 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.760 a system type thing. And there's feelers who are more 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.600 trust their gut and they just kind of have this 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.359 emotional intelligence about you know, what the right decision is. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.600 You know, they can still use information, but they come 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.080 to it a little differently, more like using their heart 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.240 or their gut versus like the percentages fit this, I'm 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.959 going with it no matter what versus. You know, a 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.320 feeler like yourself might be sitting on a tight Part 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.159 four and just be like I got driver, man, I 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.440 just feel it, you know, it's just a little different thing. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.639 And then there's our structures, so how we you know, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.800 manage the golf course, how we set up practice plans. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.240 So there's our judgers, which is what everybody wants the 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.280 world to be, which is very on time, very structured, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.920 you know, to do list calendars. And then there's people 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.480 like you and me who are completely out of order 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.520 and random. We call them perceivers. They just think you 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.960 know what perceivers do. They work super hard and short, 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.280 like kind of short burst, I guess, but whatever motivates them, 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:43.760 they'll just go hard at and then they'll jump to 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.359 another project. They typically have four or five things going 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.840 at once. And you and I know we speak that 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:54.160 same language where like a judger, they gotta go they 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.439 need a list like ten minutes this, ten minutes, ten 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:56.879 minutes this. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.480 They need to know they're gonna be at nine to thirty, 0:18:58.480 --> 0:18:59.360 they're gonna be here. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.920 Like you know or you and I are like, oh man, well, 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.600 that's like it's funny because like I when I want 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.680 to write something, you know, if I have if I'm 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.080 writing for somebody else and they tell me what I 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:16.280 need to write, it's like the most excruciating process for me. 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.040 It's great it I can even come up with the idea, 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.280