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To: E_K_S who wrote (66806)3/4/2021 2:25:23 PM
From: petal  Respond to of 78954
 
OT: golf

I think almost everyone, and especially men, and especially the more macho type, would benefit from shortening their swing. You want to be sure in which ballpark your ball will land, and want to sacrifice a huge amount of carry to achieve any form of certainty re: that.

That coloring/marking of balls are genius. I never know which brand, let alone number, mine has.

Indeed; a large part of both investing and other games is knowing beforehand what will happen (or, more realistically, what are the possible and what are the likely outcomes, and deciding how to deal with those).

As I'm reading Fortune's Formula about Kelly, Shannon, and Thorp, S&T's scientific way of predicting where roulette ball would land reminded me of Dennis Rodman's different take on the game of basketball:

"We were standing in the lay-up line, warming up and shooting, and Rodman was standing back and watching everybody shoot. I said, ‘Hey, come on, you have to participate; everybody’s shooting lay-ups, you have to shoot lay-ups, too.’ And he said, ‘I’m just watching the rotations on the basketball.’ I said, ‘Excuse me?’ He said, ‘Like, when you shoot, your ball spins three times in the air. Joe’s sometimes has 3 1/2 or four times.’

"That’s how far Rodman had taken rebounding, to a totally different level, like off the charts. He knew the rotation of every person that shot on our team — if it spins sideways, where it would bounce, how often it would bounce left or right. He had rebounding down to a science, and I never heard anyone think or talk about rebounding and defense the way he could break it down.

"When you talk about basketball IQ, I’d put Rodman at a genius level."

That blew me away when I first heard it. It's just so different. But the more I've thought about these things, the clearer it seems to me that almost every truly outstanding individual, whether it be an athlete or a scientist or any other thing, seem to have such a unique way of thinking/seeing/doing. (And of course that makes perfect sense: they wouldn't be unique otherwise. The whole process is kinda like evolution.) They all do something in a completely unique way, giving them a "moat" of sorts, if you will; whether it's working way harder, or perfecting their technical skills, or studying more deeply, or...



To: E_K_S who wrote (66806)3/5/2021 7:42:44 AM
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amazon.com

Originally printed in 1948--one of the most impactful books I've ever read. Ranks right up there with "Power of Positive thinking" series by Peale

Mike