As a type A personality, everything seems to come to me with ease; school and sports come naturally because of my constant drive to always be the best. A Type A personality accomplishes their goals and feels little satisfaction from their work, which can be troublesome and never allow a Type A’s to reach their full potential in life. Golf is a time where my Type A personality trait interferes with my performance. Over the weekend, I allowed my personality to interfere with my golf game when I attended the Chappy Wheeler Golf Tournament in Palm Desert. The game of golf has taught me numerous lessons throughout the years, including persistence, patience, respect and focus. Although I have never been pushed by my parents to do anything, I have …show more content…
I approach the tee box and meet my opponents. I begin my pre shot routine, with thoughts racing through my mind. I step back, I aim, I take my practice swing, I align myself and I duff the ball. I completely mis hit the ball in front of my competitors on my first drive of the day. Censure begins to form in my mind, I am absolutely furious. Not only did I mess up my first drive, but all my drives. I am appalled, my drives were perfect the day before. I cannot refocus myself every shot; however, I am able to persevere through the game, a lesson I have learned through practicing golf. Perseverance is crucial to everything I do as a Type A personality, because it allows you to work through harsh conditions. At the end of the two days, my coach explained to me that I can not focus on the other players or my last bad shot, I have to pull myself out of negative thinking and just do. His advice was difficult to take on, because I was upset for shooting a 222; a total of 87 strokes higher than my teammate, Sabrina. Although coach Grazier’s advice was tough to hear, by attending this tournament I gained a better sense of my self worth. In addition, I strengthened my sportsmanship skills and team spirit. All of my teammates were proud of me for playing in the tournament, without me playing they would not have had a team
Golf is more than just a game to me it connects me to my family, teaches me something new every time I play, and be part of a team. I haven’t been playing the game long but it is now a part of me.
Whenever I play with these skilled golfers, I challenge myself to improve my game. If I only competed in tournaments with that were at the same level of skill that I am, I would never increase my skills. Because I am constantly challenged in golf, I can push though my many challenges in life. Whether it’s in my classes with smarter students or at my job with extraordinarily talented co-workers, some people are always going to be better and more skilled than I am, but I am not going to let it stop me from trying just as hard. I am daily to work harder and train harder to accomplish my goals in life. Without these skilled and talented people in my life, I would never grow stronger nor improve, therefore; I am thankful that through playing golf I can respond to these challenges with ease and confidence.
Golf is different than any other sport I’ve ever played. Golf challenges the body, mind, and soul. The average person doesn’t think a lot about golf, or thinks that it is not a challenging sport. Once they have played it is a different story. Golfing is not just taking a swing at the ball, it involves several tedious techniques and strategies such as; making sure you are aimed where you want the ball to go, your hands are in the right spot on your clubs, your knees are slightly bent, etc. In the book “The Mind at Work” a member of the UCLA Graduate school of education and Information Studies, Mike Rose, states “With time and practice, all this becomes routine, automatic.” We are asked to compare Rose’s work with intelligence that we as students have acquired through our lives thus far. Something that I have worked for and learned about since I was young is golf. I
INFJs are the least common amongst the Myers-Briggs personality types. Because of this and their multifaceted nature, they are often the most misunderstood. As an INFJ, I intend to clarify some of the more complex aspects of this personality, specifically in the business environment. Through self-awareness, personality tests and various other research; I have found that INFJ’s struggle with certain behavioral paradoxes. One example of this is the strong aversion to large groups of people while portraying a seemingly outgoing, but caring interest in someone’s life. This report provides a brief insight into the INFJ worldview, as well as some new revelations about how to be a better employee through acceptance and conversationVery good
Going straight to the course without warming up and just swinging away at golf balls hoping not to nail someone in the neighboring fairway; however, there is a whole subculture of golf that many fail to realize that exists. The subculture of competitive golf is growing with more and more children joining the sport. There are many children across the nation that also followed the path that Bryan took. To be a future college golfer, and hopefully a professional, one needs to start early in childhood. The most shocking aspect of the subculture was the college recruitment. To my surprise colleges and coaches treat golfers as well as football players during the recruitment process. Coaches and their respective colleges go through great lengths to pursue and woo the best golfers for their team. Hearing this aspect really opened my eyes to the seriousness and scale of the competitive golf subculture. There will still be many people who will yawn at the mere mention of golf and personally cannot stand watching it on television. Golf will never be a mainstream sport like football because of this reason. However, it is still important to know that there are many people who devote their life and time every day to pursue their passion of golfing
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...er. Golfers should only compete with themselves and try to improve their own score or compete against the course. Lastly, eliminating thoughts that judge of condemn golfers is useful to changing negative self-talk to positive self-talk. Praise is the best way to program your unconscious mind. Self-talk requires golfers to start listening to and addressing the voices inside their heads. Repetition of positive self-talk messages is beneficial because this wires them into the brain. Lastly, it is important to program self-talk towards what you want rather than what you do not want. For example, by telling yourself not to miss another shot your subconscious mind will only reinforce the missed shot. Instead, you should think about the desired behavior or performance. Switching from tentative language to certainty and confidence eliminates the potential room for failure.
When the day finally arrived, I was really nervous; I feared that I would let the team down if I played poorly. Unfortunately, I did not play my best. From the beginning, things were not going well and, as the round drudged on, I became more and more frustrated. When I teed off on the, 12th hole, I hit another bad shot, which landed on a steep bank and rolled into a pond. I then had a lapse in judgement. I should have taken a penalty stroke and re hit from the tee box, but I decided to hit my golf ball from the muddy bank of the water hazard instead. Once I submerged my feet, I knew that I had made a terrible mistake. For not only was I attempting a low percentage shot, I had also forgotten to take off my shoes.
Throughout the beginning of this semester I have looked at how individuals behave within business organizations. Through various exercises and results, I have found a number of patterns within my behavior and interests. I have become aware what interests me, and a number of skills/abilities I was oblivious I had. This reflection and in class exercises has allowed me to expand my skills, abilities, and behaviors, well fitting them into prospective future employment.
In a world where winning is paramount, it's easy to get carried away in your quest to succeed. Too often, individuals become so focused on winning that they forget that they are competing against actual human beings with actual feelings. Those not personally involved in a match only notice whether you win or lose. However, being a great player is so much more than just winning. My tennis coach emphasizes the three keys to being a great player; effort, attitude, and sportsmanship. Throughout my high school career I’ve tried my very best to embody these traits. The best example I can think of in which I exemplified each of these traits was earlier this year. Nice intro!
The fear of disappointing others becomes so strong that you no longer play golf for yourself but for the approval of others.
Over the course of an individual’s life there are many traits acquired which are things that contribute to the way he or she interacts with others, overall these traits help with the development of one’s personality. Character traits or qualities make up a person, whether it's their personality or attitude or the way they portray themselves to others. Every person individually possess traits and qualities that not only describe, but define them making every person different. Many of the admirable traits that I possess make me the man that I am today, contributing to my interactions with others and the career path I intend to pursue. Throughout my life, many events have revealed my true character traits which include determination, optimism, and faith.
Type A Personality or Type A Behavior Pattern (TABP) include typical responses of competitiveness, time urgency, and hostility. Type A’s normally strive towards a goal without feeling a sense of joy in their efforts or accomplishments. They also seem to be in a constant struggle against the clock and become impatient with any delays and unproductive time. Type A’s also tend to see the worse in others and display anger, envy and lack of compassion (McLeod, 2017).
Characteristics a feature or quality belonging to a person, place or thing and serving to identify it. There are many personal characteristics that can define a person as an individual; some characteristics determined if a person is nice, disrespectful, intelligent, or not intelligent but it determines how a person interprets you. I believe that every individual has integrity as one of their characteristics, but my top three characteristics are Integrity, Compassion, and hard-working and for the person who carried me throughout my whole life “my brother” his characteristics would be his responsibility.
Personality takes many shapes and forms and is affected by many factors. My understanding of personality is simply a genetic and environmentally determined set of psychological traits that influence our reactions in the world around us. Genetic because our parents possess a certain set of psychological personality traits that we tend to have in common with them so therefore in my opinion there are heritable personality traits. Personality is environmental because we each have our own separate experiences in the world and these experiences help form our unique personality. Neo-Freudians such as Jung have given us a wide array of ideas of how they believe personality is developed and formatted. Jung in particular has a very interesting