Compound a Mistake with another Mistake

Conservative Aggression Chances are you think of the term “conservative aggression” as a strategy you might use to invest in the stock market. Or a strategy you use at the health club when exercising.. You’ll be conservative with your choices of stocks or exercise but aggressive with how with the execution of each. Within the financial world, it’s called risk tolerance.  You’ll perform your due diligence before picking a stock or mutual fund. and then go all in when its time, and the choice meets your expectations and the end goal of why you’re investing. At the health club you’ll conservatively start an exercise program that meets your current fitness level and allows you the comfort of knowing any exercise you do will not hurt you. Why wouldn’t a conservative aggressive approach to your golf game provide you more opportunity to shoot a better score? On the Golf Course You Choose the Opposite I bet on the golf course you find yourself doing the opposite.  You’ll make baseless ultra-aggressive decisions and expect to perform those decision, realizing as you swing that you better “slow down” to insure a result.  In essence, your ultra aggressive decision leads to a mistake.  You recognize it too late. Yet you’ll go ahead and execute a swing, attempting to correct mistakes versus swinging without fear. In addition, you’ll use the same baseless, ultra-aggressive process to get yourself out of the first mistake you made.  And as predicted, it too leads to a mistake, a 2nd…