Me and my friends have recently been getting into golf. I grabbed my dad's old clubs from the garage & brought them up to gainesville with me. I found it to be very challenging at first, and was definitely not succeeding. I usually pick things up relatively quickly (especially when it comes to sports), but even so this still took some time to get the hang of. After a couple of times of playing a round or going to the range I was finally noticing a lot of improvement. In most aspects of life learning always takes place, this is prevalent with golf in that you are always critiquing and changing your swing in order to adjust how you want to hit the ball. This is similar to how we looked at our venture concept and slowly added/changed parts of it in order to improve the overall idea.
Because of other things going on in my life, there was a good amount of time (over a month) where I wasn’t able to play. When we finally did play another round, I discovered that I had lost almost all the progress I had made. That day I couldn’t hit my irons to save my life. I kept “topping” the ball. This was very discouraging, and I wasn’t really as motivated to play as I was before. Regardless I’ve gone back since and am getting better each time.
The lesson I learned through all this is that if you want something you not only have to put time and effort, but you also have to stick with it and continue to work towards it. While I don’t like to fail, I embrace it because it is an opportunity to learn and improve myself. Taking this class has only strengthened that perspective of failure, and I would say I am willing to take more risks because of it.
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