[felizuno]

I've always thought that trying to optimize life is the ultimate denial. In golf we have these people who spend hours on the range optimizing their swing but they seldom play a round because of course their score is never as "optimized" and that make them feel bad. They can max out point data but never in a way that changes the aggregate, which based on the invested effort turned into a feeling of defeat.

Life is mostly out of your control, if you think that the solution is to try and assert more control you're the reason the myth of Sisyphus is popular.

[paulcole]

There’s nothing more real about playing a round of golf than hitting a ball on the range. It’s all just made up anyway.

Maybe they feel bad about their golf game but feel even worse about the rest of their lives? Let them have a couple hours on the range, it doesn’t particularly matter anyway.

[coffee_beqn]

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