To Choose or Not To Choose

To Choose or Not To Choose

Greetings Golfers,

I just got an email saying, “Be a part of something bigger than you.”

And … I respect that … and I think it’s important for personal and societal health.

However, I’m always afraid of the hive mentality. It’s basically the same as mob mentality.

But, a lot of the people who run things don’t want people using their heads … they just want conformity.

Have you ever heard of “the father of modern worker efficiency” Frederick Winslow Taylor?

An American mechanical engineer, Taylor pioneered the Scientific Management movement (often called Taylorism) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

For example, Taylor used stopwatches to break down every manual task into its smallest components, timing each to eliminate wasted movements.

His book, The Principles of Scientific Management, was the voted the most important business book of the 20th century. Though … critics viewed him as a slave driver who dehumanized workers by treating them as interchangeable cogs in a machine.

Yesterday morning, one of my sons sent me a fascinating Tony Robbins interview. It was about how you have to use more than your brain … that you have to be motivated by your heart. And that you have to keep growing no matter how successful you become.

That same son is here visiting … and just came back from a local sandwich shop … which he said has become standard anywhere in America. He wasn’t talking about a chain restaurant … rather a small locally owned place … but it didn’t feel unique to Beaufort.

Over my 20 years here in Beaufort, it has drastically lost its unique look and feel and atmosphere.

I hear so many people say how they love “diversity” … but I’ve noticed what they really love is “uniformity”. Their love of diversity is to make all diverse people and places the same.

I don’t think this is progress.

I don’t like the one-size-fits-all robotic golf swing.

I don’t like every town looking the same.

I like genuine diversity.

I like options … instead of everything trying to be everything to everyone.

As we “advance” into this modern world … I think this is the real challenge.

Do we want a world made up of unique people and places? … or a giant hive world?

It’s that simple.

Cheers!

Tom Abts
GM/Head PGA Professional
tabts@deerrungolf.com