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Speaker 1: Well, welcome back to the Son of a Butch podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Claude Harmon. So I wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: about today one of my favorite concepts, right, process over outcome.

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban, who's one of my coaching heroes. Longtime coach

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Speaker 1: at the University of Alabama football program. Nick talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about process over outcome, stick to the process, and

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of times people say that and

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Speaker 1: it just sounds like kind of coach speak. What the

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Speaker 1: hell does that even mean? So wanted to take a

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Speaker 1: deep dive into process over outcome today and how sticking

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Speaker 1: with the process can help you improve your scores, lower

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Speaker 1: your handicap. The score bearers, we're all trying to beat

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Speaker 1: break one hundred ninety eighty, break par for the first time.

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Speaker 1: And what I'm always trying to do is come up

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Speaker 1: with ways that are low hanging fruit, things that you

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Speaker 1: can control. Right. I always think it's important in sports,

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Speaker 1: but specifically engulf too control the controllables. Right, there are

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Speaker 1: so many things when you play golf, and when you're

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Speaker 1: playing golf, the game, the game is random. It's hard

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Speaker 1: for you to control. But if you can start to

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Speaker 1: think about the process and not focus so much on

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Speaker 1: the outcome or the result. I think that can really

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Speaker 1: help you. So you've probably heard that before, right, and

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Speaker 1: it sounds great, but it probably means absolutely nothing to you.

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Speaker 1: And what I'm going to try and do today is

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Speaker 1: take a deep dive into what it actually means, but

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Speaker 1: more importantly, how you can try and focus on the

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Speaker 1: process and how that can help you become a better

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Speaker 1: golfer on the golf course, because ultimately that's the goal, right.

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Speaker 1: The hack that I'm always trying to help players find,

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Speaker 1: the hacks that I'm trying to help players have are

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Speaker 1: things that they can control. If you're trying to break

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Speaker 1: a hundred for the first time, it's not a reality

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Speaker 1: for you that you're going to hit three hundred yard drives.

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Speaker 1: It's not a reality that you're going to hit them

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Speaker 1: or to your fairways, that you're going to hit a

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Speaker 1: that your short game is going to be great. That's

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Speaker 1: just not reality. That's not the real world, right. So

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Speaker 1: I think the problem with outcome thinking is golfers are

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Speaker 1: obsessed with the outcome. How far the ball go, what's

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Speaker 1: my score? How close did I hit it right. Your

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Speaker 1: playing partners are always asking you, your friends are always asking, Hey,

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Speaker 1: what'd you shoot today? How many birdies did you make?

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Speaker 1: You know, how many fair ways did you hit? How

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Speaker 1: many greens did you All of that is outcome thinking right.

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Speaker 1: But here's the really interesting thing, and I think if

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Speaker 1: you can start to think this way, it can really

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Speaker 1: really help you become better at coming up with a plan,

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Speaker 1: sticking to that plan, and letting the outcome take care

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Speaker 1: of itself. Golf is all the game. Once we get

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Speaker 1: out on the golf course, once we get off the

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Speaker 1: driving range, the playing of the game is a random

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Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is you're gonna hit

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Speaker 1: a perfect shot. You know. You can stand in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the fairway with a seven iron. You've hit

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Speaker 1: a beautiful drive. You flush it right out of the middle,

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Speaker 1: goes exactly your seven iron yardage and go right at

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Speaker 1: the flag. You can be posing on it like you

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Speaker 1: see Scottie and Rory and Nelly and Lydia Cone, all

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Speaker 1: these great players posing on it, getting that logo time

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Speaker 1: for all your logos, and it can hit the flag

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Speaker 1: and go in the water. You can hit a perfect shot,

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Speaker 1: get a bad bounce and the outcome is bad. And

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Speaker 1: then how many times have you hit a drive, you

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Speaker 1: hit a big slice, You've hit a snappok, it's going

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Speaker 1: into the trees, it's going into the water, hits a tree,

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Speaker 1: bounce us right back in the middle of the fairway.

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Speaker 1: So those are two great examples. You can hit a really,

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Speaker 1: really good shot and get a bad break. You can

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Speaker 1: hit a part of the green and kick left and

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Speaker 1: miss the green and go in a bunker. You've hit

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Speaker 1: a good shot but the outcome has been bad. Or

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Speaker 1: So what that should tell you is the playing of golf,

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Speaker 1: the playing of the game, and the way the sport

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Speaker 1: is designed. It's all one hundred percent random. The outcome

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Speaker 1: is random. You hit good shots that end up in

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Speaker 1: bad places. You hit bad shots that end up in

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Speaker 1: good places. So if you're going to judge your your

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Speaker 1: game and what you're doing on the golf club purely

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Speaker 1: strictly on outcome, you're basically trying to judge yourself on

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Speaker 1: luck because you can't control the outcome. The only thing

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Speaker 1: that you can control is the shot that you're hitting.

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Speaker 1: Can't control the shot you've just hit because it's in

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Speaker 1: the past. You can't control the shot that you're going

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Speaker 1: can have any control over, is the one you're hitting.

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Speaker 1: So I think outcome thinking it creates a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: Right to me, it creates a lot of anxiety. You're

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Speaker 1: trying to control the uncontrollable, Right, you get frustrated when

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Speaker 1: things don't go your way, when you get bad breaks,

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Speaker 1: when you hit good shots and the outcome isn't good.

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Speaker 1: I think constantly focusing on the outcome forces you into

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Speaker 1: bad decisions. Right, you're chasing an outcome, You're chasing a

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Speaker 1: results as opposed to playing smart, sticking to your game plan,

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Speaker 1: sticking to the process. And I think it leads to

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Speaker 1: think about those four things, a lot of anxiety trying

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Speaker 1: to control the uncontrollable. You get frustrated when things don't

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Speaker 1: go your way. I've talked about that before. You have

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Speaker 1: a plan at A, there's no plan B. And when

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Speaker 1: Plan A doesn't work, you get really, really frustrated. You

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Speaker 1: start making bad decisions, You get in trouble, You make

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Speaker 1: you push all in instead of playing smart, instead of saying, listen,

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Speaker 1: get the ship back, you know, on course, let me

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Speaker 1: a lot of inconsistency. So what is the process? Right?

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Speaker 1: As I said at the beginning, you hear that all

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Speaker 1: the time, process over outcome, process over that. But what

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Speaker 1: the hell does it mean? And is there any real

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Speaker 1: value in thinking about this? Think about it this way.

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Speaker 1: Sticking to the process equals things that you can control.

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Speaker 1: So these are things that you can control before the shot.

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Speaker 1: So control the controllables. Kirby Smart, the head football coach

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Speaker 1: day with a couple of his former football players at

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Speaker 1: One of the things that Kirby spart would always say

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Speaker 1: So I think, and I've talked about it before, I

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Speaker 1: What are you trying to do? What is your plan?

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Speaker 1: What is the formula? So process are the things that

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Speaker 1: control your routine. You can control your decision, which means

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Speaker 1: commitment to those things, to your routine, to good decision

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Speaker 1: what shape you're choosing. And then during the shot, you

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Speaker 1: can focus and control focusing on the target, not mechanics.

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Speaker 1: You can control your tempo, you can control your breathing.

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Speaker 1: And then one of the things that I think is

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Speaker 1: really important and things that you can control is after

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Speaker 1: outcomeing did you get really really excited and too high

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Speaker 1: something that you can control. What you're saying to yourself,

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Speaker 1: Those are things that are your choice. Those are choices

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Speaker 1: you can make. You can you can choose to stick

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Speaker 1: to a preshot routine. You can choose to take one

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Speaker 1: more club, You can choose to take more conservative targets.

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Speaker 1: You can choose to allow for your miss, for your shape.

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Speaker 1: So you want to try and constantly control the things

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Speaker 1: everything except the outcome right? And none of that that

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Speaker 1: as the player. So I think a really cool concept

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Speaker 1: opponent's score. You're constantly evaluating your opponent's score, what they did.

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Speaker 1: there's a long talk. You can tell that they're taking

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Speaker 1: all the mind coaches say. Stay in the present, control

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Speaker 1: the shots. The only shot you can control right now

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Speaker 1: is the shot you're hitting. And ask yourself on every

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Speaker 1: bad shot you hit, did you have intention? Did you

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Speaker 1: have good focus? Did you have a clear picture in

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Speaker 1: your mind what you were trying to do, did you

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Speaker 1: have a clear target, did you have a spot where

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Speaker 1: you're trying to start the golf All of the things

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Speaker 1: that are within your control. Because once you take the

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Speaker 1: golf club back and you start your golf swing motion.

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Speaker 1: We've seen tiger Woods stop on the way down, but

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Speaker 1: it's pretty tough for most people to do that. Do

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Speaker 1: your job, accept the result, and move on. I think

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Speaker 1: if you can focus on process over outcome is a

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Speaker 1: really good way for you to start to lower your

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Speaker 1: handicap rate. Review subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening. It's the son of a Butch podcast