A PROFESSIONAL* DOES NOT HESITATE TO ASK FOR HELP
Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer in the world. Yet he has a teacher; he works with Butch Harmon. And Tiger doesn’t endure this instruction or suffer through it—he revels in it. It’s his keenest professional joy to get other on the practice tee with Butch, to learn more about the game he loves.
Tiger Woods is the consummate professional. It would never occur to him, as it would to an amateur, that he knows everything, or can figure everything out on his own. On the contrary, he seeks out the most knowledgeable teacher and listens with both ears. The student of the game knows that the levels of revelation that can unfold in golf, as in any art, are inexhaustible.
--from The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield, page 85 (and by the way, I give this book my highest recommendation). Pressfield says it better than I as to why having a coach is so important.
*the “professional” here is not someone who does their job out of a cold detachment simply to be paid for it, but is the one who differentiates herself from the amateur by the depth of her commitment to, love for, as passion in her life’s work.
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