This is my favorite weekend of the year -- normally. Don't love golf? Read on anyways.

This is Masters week. And for all of you who think golf is a game for rich people -- sometimes true.

But what it really is, and why I love it, is it's a *game of failure*, not success. /1

Most of life is not built from success to success, but from small failure to small failure. Sometimes you get lucky, but most of the time you have to grind. That's golf.

When I was 8 years old a cousin took me to a driving range and I was hooked. I played at a muni course /2

every summer, all summer. Worked there, too as a young teen. Caddied. And I watched how people met failure....because *most* of the time you do not hit a ball 213 yards into the wind and watch it fall elegantly next to the pin. Most of the time it goes poorly /3

even for the greats.

And so, you know that and have to mitigate risk. Instead of aiming for the pin on a low probability shot, you pull your ambition back and aim center green. Take your medicine out of the woods and chip into the fairway. /4

And then once in a while everything goes well -- pure action at a distance -- and it's like art.

Doing that once a round is a huge reward. Watching the very best in the world wrestle their own mental demons is what watching the Masters is really about. /5

I've been very lucky to play with a few world #1's -- and a bunch of truly great players. And I've mentally broken myself into pieces more on a golf course than I ever did losing big money trading.

I've also made my best friends -- and learned about people -- on a golf course/6

So for those of you who don't love golf -- no problem. But next time you watch a highlight of the Masters, go watch the lowlights instead.

Small, incremental practice, iteration, and calm decision making is really the game. And I'd say that it relates pretty well right now. /7

Hoping the @TheMasters can be played in November. And wishing the players and their families well.

See you on the course in July or so.