I’m not saying that optimism won those three major titles for Padraig. He won them because he has talent and he worked very hard for many years to hone that talent. But Padraig’s optimism helped him find the will to keep working through all the setbacks he had—and a golfer loses far more tournaments than he wins. His is a constant kind of optimism, and it works for him the way fertilizer works for flowers, enabling and enhancing all the efforts he makes to improve his game.
