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You Think Too Much

How to skip the mental game and enjoy the real one

When kids take up golf and experience those delicious first few otherworldly hits -- when all the moving parts of their swing synchronize perfectly, and the ball goes farther than they ever imagined -- their thinking about the moment doesn't usually go much deeper than "Awesome!" Mostly they're just eager to drag another ball into place and hit again.

Grown-ups, however, are much savvier than kids. They've read self-help books and attended business strategy sessions. So their reaction to such perfect shots is usually...