18.04.2024 Today’s Insights-and Inspiration-from a Two-Time Golf Masters Champion-in the Wall Street Journal
Dear Students,
Golf, anyone? (No worries – I don’t play, either.)
It’s not actually necessary to play golf, though, to appreciate the valuable concept for ambitious international students like you in today’s WSJ article, below. The key message for you and your friends: Find what works for you, even if it doesn’t seem to “jive” with what others – even so-called experts – think.
In the West, we have many ways to convey this idea, often encouraged early in life by supportive parents committed to building their children’s self-awareness.
For example, do any of these sound familiar?:
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” (Oscar Wilde, Irish Poet and Playwright)
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” (Bernard Baruch, Founder of Baruch College)
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet and Philosopher)
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“….I took the road less traveled… and that made all the difference” (Robert Frost, American poet)
Truly integrating such messages, however, may be new terrain for a candidate like you, having perhaps been raised to believe that replicating an often-shared “formula” of intensive academic effort within a prominent university, plus a particular type of major, combined with a first role in a certain prestigious industry or kind of company, would guarantee success in your professional future.
Yet, as aspiring global professionals like you can learn from Scheffler’s unique route to golfing achievement, young talent (meaning you and your peers) may well actually become more confident, fulfilled and ultimately distinguished in the path you choose by carving it yourself.
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The world No. 1 just clinched his second major in three years. He did it thanks to a technique that violates the basic fundamentals of how you’re supposed to swing a golf club.
www.wsj.com
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Here’s to a personally-crafted and fulfilling evening!
Best,
Amy-Louise