>>20783971Well yeah. Confidence and not arrogance.
The point is to have a mindset that isnt damaging you
>One caveat, however, for excessive optimism comes from a golf study by Kirschenbaum, O’Connor, and Owens (1999). They found that
individuals could be overly optimistic, having
such positive illusions about their skill and control that they make poor decisions. Across all
skill levels, performance suffered on challenging
holes because of too aggressive shot selection.
>An intervention in which golfers were taught more conservative and realistic shot selection led
to better performance. A useful guideline here
is the phrase “conservative strategy and cocky
execution” (Rotella, 1995). This refers to setting realistic, short-term expectations and game
plans; and then totally, completely, and utterly
committing oneself to following them through.
