All the greatest ball-strikers asked questions of themselves that improved their performance, including Moe Norman. If you have never heard of or listened to him, you owe it to yourself to see what a complete golf obsession looks and sounds like. Personally, I have never seen someone so strange completely dissect the physical and spiritual aspects of golf. I believe his insights bubbled to the surface because Moe Norman quietly pursued the answers to the right questions.
At The Open Stance Academy, we want golfers to take control of their improvement by employing a proven set-up philosophy. Through parable in paragraph, we guide willing golfers to their most-efficient golf swings. Furthermore, we want students to ask better questions to get better feedback or… answers.
The difference between a good question and a bad question is in the first word. You may remember I quoted Socrates, who said, “Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas.” The first word of a question focuses our attention on either our next step or our solution. Of the words, who, what, when, where, why, and how, only one bypasses incrementals and incidentals. Why?
I find it difficult to understand how someone so gifted was largely ignored for the majority of his life. Moe wistfully asked why it took sixty-five years for the World to see his genius. He would have liked to have competed with the notoriety at his back.
In this segment, we can see a hint of regret in Moe’s demeanor. He knew too late what some learn early in life. However, Moe still didn’t talk about people, and only talked about events in his own life. We know he was focused on solutions by the word beginning his interview queries. Tortured souls always ask deeper, more fundamental questions.
Any time I feel unappreciated or down, I watch Moe Norman videos. Listening to him chatter away so fluently about golf’s bigger questions gives me hope that his colorful personality will eventually serve to move us toward golf’s underlying truth. In any event, he always makes me smile and feel hopeful.
“They say it’s a boy’s pastime, yet it builds men.”
Murray Moe Norman
Open your stance, and play golf.
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