Scottie Scheffler has heard the goat Comparisons, and to say it carefully, he is not interested.
“I still think they’re a little silly,” Scheffler said just a few weeks ago from the podium to the open championship, just a few minutes removed from it The fourth title of the main championship. “I think Tiger is only in the golf game. He was inspiring to me growing up. He was a very, very talented guy and he was a special person to be able to be as good as he was in the golf game. But I don’t focus on that kind of stuff.”
But maybe the problem was a clergyman all the time. we were Wrong to compare Scheffler with Woods because we had the wrong goat.
On Wednesday morning, Tom Brady sent the last edition of his 199 NEWSLETTER – A week send by distilling some of the goat (football) lessons about leadership, success, business and life. Most weeks, the Bulletin reads like many other newspapers from successful athletes and businessmen, which means that it traces in the Pithy clichés (if unreal). But on Wednesday, Brady’s interest was reduced by a topic he knew in wonderful specification: Scheffler fighting on purpose.
If you are a golf fan who spent the last part of the season under a rock, a quick summary: on Tuesday of the open week, Scheffler answered an innocent question about the length of his celebrations with a stunning, long response about the meaning of life, the flying nature of his success and the dissonance between fame and happiness. While related to his success on the course, Scheffler’s response could be summarized in his three words: “What is the goal?”
Brady was hit by this response when he heard it, no less than he would submit it himself, in an interview with 60 minutes, Immediately after winning his third Super Bowl in four years. As Brady explained at the entrance of his newspaper, he was about Scheffler’s age when he first looked at the professional mountain – and he was about Scheffler’s age when he came to a similar realization: even the biggest professional achievements were not enough to provide him with sustainable fulfillment.
For Brady, the years that followed this realization led to the true creation of the goat. In his story, learning what he did not bring about sustainable happiness allowed him to find the things he did: his family, his health and his process.
Brady would spend the rest of his professional career trying to master the ways in which those advantages overlap to bring him fulfillment-a pursuit that led to the creation of the Uber-Obsessive method TB12, but also resulted in a strictly managed private life and an impressive amount of introsmentation.
As he reflected on Scheffler’s response, Brady could see some of his newest self in world no. 1. He knew how he felt to achieve extraordinary achievement, but only instant pleasure. He knew how he felt to fight with the advantage of things that matter, things that smelt Like they matter, and things that don’t. Mostly, however, he knew how he felt to see the mountain and admit that it was not that way.
“This is the question that it seems that Scottie Scheffler is struggling with: Do I have my advantages straight?“Brady wrote.” But I think to realize that the answer is quite straightforward. “
“When the advantage is to take care of your mental and physical health, which is always number 1, that’s what you do,” Brady said. “First you take care of yourself, then your partner, then your children, etc.
According to Brady, the real challenge that Scheffler faces was not learning his advantages but to learn when They were his advantages.
“Scottie said he would better be a better father and man than a good golf player. And my question is: why are they mutually exclusive?” Wrote Brady. “Of course, they are different blocks in the pyramid, but they are part of the same pyramid. They are connected! Fraud is recognizing which aspect of your life is most pressing, from moment to moment, and then learn how to give preference to what it takes to be great in such aspect.”
From his noise on the mountain of Russian football, Brady could easily identify the feature that made that goat. It had nothing to do with dominance or ability, and everything to do with the small moments that predetermined it. Scheffler touched him on Sunday in the open championship, referring to the work life that gave birth to his achievement moment. Bryson Dechambeau also referred to him, remembering confrontation against Scheffler as children in Texas “… and he was not THIS good. “
Brady knows the obsession that brought Scheffler from goodness to greatness. And he knows that it has a deeper meaning essential within it – simply not the kind that can be found in two minutes after winning a big championship.
“It was the pursuit of perfection where I found the greatest joy, not in the achievements themselves,” Brady wrote. “It was the process, not the result.”
In his game days, Brady said his favorite Super Bowl ring was “Next”.
There was real in that response. But much more importantly, it was intended.
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James Colgan
Golfit.com editor
James Colan is a news editor of news and features in Golf, writing stories on the website and magazine. He manages the hot germ, golf media vertical and uses his experience on camera across brand platforms. Before entering Golf, James graduated from Siracuse University, during which time he was a caddy scholarship receiver (and Astuta Looper) in Long Island, where he is. He can be reached on James.colgan@golf.com.
