This stuff works!
Trust me, the information here can greatly improve your golf game, and your life in general.
It’s NOT boring, and it’s NOT hard to understand.
Let me explain this in very simple terms:
Philosophy is an operating system for making decisions in life.
Stoic Philosophy (Stoicism) is a school of Philosophy which was founded in Athens in the early 3rd century BC.
So very simply put: Stoicism is an operating system for living your life, which is very old , and can help you make better decisions.
Here at StoicGolf.com, we want to show you how this operating system can help improve your decisions on the golf course, lower your scores, and allow you to enjoy the game even more.
Stoicism and Golf
Stoicism is an operating system that works extremely well in high stress environments, and we all know how stressful golf can be at times.
This operating system helps you make better decisions in stressful situations. There are so many concepts and ideas that relate extremely well with golf.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it what matters.
Epictetus
How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us.
Marcus Aurelius
How many times have you been playing with someone who has a blow up hole and simply can’t recover. They lose a ball off the tee on the 3rd hole, and their entire round is gone. They can’t mentally recover.
This has probably happened to you, as it’s happened to me as well. The quadruple bogey on the 3rd hole won’t ruin your scorecard: It’s how you react and fall apart afterwards that will mess up your round.
Stoicism can help.
Stoicism can help you be more aware of your thoughts and emotions, and therefore can help you avoid making bad decisions. Instead of trying to split the trees and go for the green from a bad lie in the rough, you can gather your thoughts and realize the better play is to punch it out to the fairway. Over time these decisions will greatly improve your golf score.
Many times when you look at your score after a round of golf, you can think back to a few bad mistakes which if eliminated could have really produced a great score for you. In many cases, making better decisions because of a better framework could have helped you avoid those mistakes and extra strokes.
For the average golfer, improving their mental game is one of the easiest ways to lower their score instantly.