how boredom led to growth
I started my childhood in a state of mind where I was greatly under the attack of a lot of chaos around me and the only way I could make it to a place of happiness was to find a place of quiet and stillness. This place was the golf course. This was my place of complete solace. It was a place where I could have my own thoughts and imagination for life run wild. It gave me the opportunity to feel what true peace could feel like for the time I was there.
The golf course was my art canvas, therapist, friend, teacher and everything you could imagine to assist in making your life better. The more time I spent at the golf course, on the putting green, on the driving range, the more I began to become obsessed with how to create shots and how to improve. I would spend the day at the course and my nights studying the games greatest players, soaking in every detail of what goes into every shot they create. Whatever I learned at night, I would go to the course the next day and try out one particular shot or movement that infatuated me the night before. Sometimes I did the same shot or movement for weeks in a row before I understood it. But, I always found a way to understand, never backing down. It was my decisions off the golf course in times when I didn’t have golf in my life that led me to have this mentality though. It would be times after school coming home to boredom that would actually begin to shape my future for learning and educating myself.
I hated boredom so much that I would try and learn one new skill every day or week of my choosing. From YouTube, to books and hours of studying how people thought rather than what they thought, I started piling up useless skills that would turn out to be the framework for how I learn. Once I figured out that instead of learning skills that I may never use, I can start to find skills that will enhance my life for the better, my life had a foundation to build off of. When golf came into my life with beauty and solace, I thought to myself, “I think this just may be what I need to spend my time learning skills in.” From that day on, it was my complete intention to figure out how to become one of golf's greatest figures.
My key to development and most importantly, peace, was through boredom. Boredom led to skills, skills led to thoughts, thought led to ideas, ideas led advancing within the craft of golf. It is easy to be upset and unsettled with boredom. Boredom with a different perspective is actually freedom. On the contrary, if you are bored with what you are doing and it is keeping you busy this is a lock and chain to the ground. Without the expression of yourself to be creative within your given craft, it is hard to find enjoyment. When you do something creative within what you are passionate about, this becomes the ultimate freedom.
Vola con me, Dino
