"I made a pleasant discovery," the author reflects, emphasizing that consistent effort over time leads to gradual improvement. Putting in eight hours a day on a pursuit doesn't guarantee dramatic progress, but it often results in small, meaningful gains.
"You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements."