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E14 Don't Pivot Divot Audiogram

Name: E14 Don't Pivot Divot Audiogram
Uploaded: 2021-03-30T17:02:38+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Stephen Shapiro
Description: Stephen Shapiro explains the golf metaphor of a divot: instead of pivoting to a new direction, sometimes you go deep into one idea. A divot is the chunk…

30 Mar 2021 · 1 min

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Stephen Shapiro explains the golf metaphor of a divot: instead of pivoting to a new direction, sometimes you go deep into one idea. A divot is the chunk of grass a golfer removes by hitting the ground hard.

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We talk about pivoting, about changing direction, but I want you just bear with me for a moment as I describe a different concept. One of the things which I enjoy doing is going golfing. I'm not a great golfer or a pretty bad golfer. And one of the things that would happen if you're a golfer is, you know, if you're not very good, sometimes you go a little too deep. You go a little too deep. Instead of hitting the ball, you actually go deep, and you hit the grass, and a big chunk of grass goes flying. And they call that a divot. That big clump of grass is a divot. And so I started thinking about this, and what I realized is maybe sometimes the strategy is not to pivot, but to divot. Instead of changing directions, maybe we want to go deep.