Brian Johnson explains how to perform adequately when you're not at your best, and how to stop bad days from getting worse by sticking to fundamentals. He uses examples from Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan to show what this looks like in practice.
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Hi, this is Brian.
Welcome back to another micro class.
This one's on UBE plus gbd. It's inspired by the champions mind by Jim Afromo. UBE Ugly but effective.
I love that phrase.
GBD Good Bad days. Jim tells us that champions know how to play ugly and still be effective and have good bad days. So think back to a day when you just weren't quite feeling it yet. You showed up, you kept your head in the game and you crushed it. You were ugly but effective. It just wasn't your best. Yet you were able to show up and still get done when you need to get done. Or you had a good bad day, things could have gone like this and spout out of control, which is what non champions do and what we do in our non champion moments. Things get a little wobbly. Oh man, how's it going?
I don't know.
And then we blah, blah, kryptonite comes in, the sirens beckon us and we kind of spin out of control. For a golfer that's oh, I had a bad shot. Oh, I had another bad shot. Oh man. Then they try too hard and they.
Just all fall apart.
Whereas as Jack Nicklaus says, the best golfers know how to play poorly. Well, they know how to stay ugly. They're ugly, but they're effective. Then this happens and then you kick it up to this. You may not get up here, which you would do on your best a day, but you still have a solid day.
Think about that and remember how important.
It is to be able to. There's a beauty to playing ugly but effective. Having good bad days instead of this kind of day. Bad, bad days that then spirals out into more, which spirals out into more. And I can't keep on going down.
Here on this screen. But you get the idea.
Being able to stop it right there is huge. First step is to be aware that you're going to have ugly days. You're going to have bad days. This is how growth goes. It doesn't go perfect. You have some bad days where you step back recognizing that you're going to have bad shots. Another golfer used to say, look, I know every round championship golfer.
Maybe it was Ben Hogan. I forget.
I'm gonna have at least seven bad shots in a given round. I'm not gonna be perfect. He knows that the ones who struggle with this are the perfectionists among us who think that things need to be perfect all the time. Not gonna happen. But we can get really, really good at this. And that's exciting. There's a power to it, recognize it, commit to your fundamentals and continue to crush it. Then celebrate these days when you didn't quite have it yet. You did what you needed to get done anyway. That's awesome.
This is David Reynolds Wisdom.
There's no deeper sense of confidence that comes from being the type of person who does what needs to get done whether you feel like it or not. Now, what needs to be done? Let's be ugly but effective. Hope you have a lot of great days, and when you have the bad.
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