The Competitor’s Brain

80 - The Importance of Recall

I remember golfing with my friends. Some of my closest friends. I was in my twenties. I was a decent golfer, got down to the low teens, regularly in the low 80s. Two of my roommates were excellent golfers. They were both accountants. They did not fit into Happy Gilmore’s stereotype of golfers. They were a plus-two and a three. Learn how recall can make you into a better performer here [https://lorenfoxx.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-recall].

79 - Don't Think, It Can Only Hurt the Ballclub

The legendary catcher Crash Davis was at the center of the baseball movie Bull Durham. Early in the movie, rookie pitcher Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh and Crash meet behind a bar in Durham… you know, the classic “wanna step outside” moment. The moment culminates with Crash challenging Nuke to throw a baseball at him, followed by Crash planting seeds of what could happen if Nuke misses. Read more on my Substack [https://lorenfoxx.substack.com/p/coming-soon].

78 - Access and Compounding

If you have access to something that can set you apart, and you're willing to put in the work necessary, your skill set can compound. The gains that you can make will set you apart from others due to the advantage you have been given. Will you capture it, or will you let it slip?

77 - The People You Spend The Most Time With

We are the average of the people we spend the most time with. We pick up their habits, we pick up their opinions, we pick up their attitudes toward the world. If you hang with people who make bad choices... well, you will make bad choices too.

76 - Note Taking

For most of us, it's not enough to read. The information just tends to get lost over time. It's about cataloguing the information in a meaningful way in order to be able to reference it later. There are many different ways to go about it, and there's no right way... but there needs to be a way.