In this episode, Scott Becker shares thoughts on the connection between mental clarity, sports performance, and the pursuit of calm in a hectic world.
Chapter 1: What is the focus of today's discussion?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion is golf, sports, and peace of mind. So here is the challenge. The last couple of weeks have been an incredibly busy period of time. Had a large conference, had a meeting in Atlanta, a McGuire Woods conference where I got to interview this brilliant, brilliant
Chapter 2: Who is Anousheh Ansari and why is she significant?
woman astronaut, scientist, investor, Anousheh Ansari, who is just absolutely brilliant, born in Iran, has been here for a long time, flew to space for 11 days in Russia, just a brilliant person. Also had a chance to give a speech at a meeting in Atlanta for the young health leaders. Just an incredible pleasure. So many positives the last couple of weeks.
Chapter 3: How does a busy lifestyle affect sports performance?
Now, one of the challenges with being so busy and being sort of all over the place and over-caffeinated is, My middle-aged sports suffer, which is not the biggest deal in the world, other than too much of my esteem comes from my middle-aged sports because I'm a loser. But it is what it is. That's a different point.
Chapter 4: What challenges arise from over-caffeination?
The point is, yesterday I got an email that – and this is so embarrassing, so bear with me – that our club has a golf tournament this Saturday that I signed up for. And I didn't realize this. One sister's in town from out of town from Atlanta – We have a blended family, so five kids are in town, actually six when the one that lives in town is here too.
So there's just way, way too much going on this weekend. And thus, I get into this mindset to realize that I'm playing in this golf tournament tomorrow and I'll give you updates if anybody wants them, but it is likely to be a disaster because mentally I'm in no mood for any of this right now. I just really no mode to play, no, no mood to deal with it. And yet, you know, tomorrow's this tournament.
So just trying to get my head on straight in the mood for it. And what I find with my middle-aged sports is the more that my head is not centered and then I'm overwhelmed in a million different places and the more poorly I do in all my middle-aged sports and all my recreational activities. And now some of those know how old I am.
So when they say middle-aged, like, what do you think you're to live to one 50? No, I understand that I'm not exactly middle-aged and I don't want to hear it. In any event, we'll hope for the best tomorrow. We're we're, we're very trepidatious, which means nervous because I know that when I'm in that head space where I've been all over the place, I've really practiced. I've really worked at it.
I generally don't play well in these things. And I just have to simplify what I'm trying to do. So that's the goal for tomorrow. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Don't be a moron. Try and not take big chances. Just do the best I can. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast.
My golf game feels a little bit like the Titanic right now, which is never a good reference, but we'll see how it goes. Thank you for listening. Again, if you have comments, questions, if you really want to know how poorly I do in this thing, feel free at any time to text me, 773-766-5322. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast.
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