Practices of Elite Athletes That Will Help Amateur Golfers with Dr. Jo Lukins

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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GS#1022 This week we speak to Dr. Jo Lukins about her most recent book 'The Elite'. She shares insights on the mental strategies that elite athletes use to succeed. Dr. Lukins also explores the unique mental challenges faced by golfers and the significance of habits, nutrition, and sleep in achieving peak performance. She emphasizes the importance of mindset, the role of failure in learning, and how gratitude can enhance performance.This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply.This episode is sponsored by HIMS. Start your free online visit today HIMS.com/golfsmarter and received personalized ED treatment options. This episode is brought to you by Warby Parker with over 300+ locations to help you find your next pair of glasses. You can also head over to warbypaker.com/golfsmarter right now to try on any pair virtually!For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lisa from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and I play at Airport National Golf Course.
0:09.6	Welcome to Golf Smarter.
0:11.1	Hi, this is Mark Mason from Wahalla, South Carolina.
0:14.0	I play my golf at O'Conney Country Club, and this is Golf Smarter Episode 120.
0:26.3	Here's the extra little bit of bonus to those of us that are athletes, grateful athletes,
0:27.1	perform better.
0:33.0	So we're actually seeing gratitude as a performance enhancer that gets us closer to success.
0:41.3	So if you have two golfers who are similar in levels of ability, but one of them walks through with a lens of gratitude and says, isn't it wonderful that I get to play on this course?
0:44.3	How fortunate am I?
0:45.3	People often say to me, why do you think gratitude is performance in Hexa?
0:48.3	And I think one of the reasons is you cannot be grateful and complain at the same time.
0:53.3	Like those two things do not go hand in hand.
0:55.8	Getting on what I call the complaint train, my shots are terrible today and I can't believe that
1:00.8	it's cloudy and it's a bit hotter than I thought and people in front are too slow and there's people
1:06.0	going too quickly behind us and all that sort of stuff. That already sounds like the sort of person I don't
1:10.7	really want to spend a couple of hours with. But it also doesn't put you in a mindset that
1:15.9	sets you up to being open and creative and curious, which we know of those things that are going to
1:20.3	help us in terms of performance. When we are grateful, it's almost like an internal little sigh
1:25.2	where we relax. Complaining and winging is tense.
1:28.9	Gratitude is an absolute winner for us in terms of performance enhancement.
1:37.5	The practices of elite athletes that will help all amateur golfers with Dr. Joe Lukens.
1:44.7	This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you
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