Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
We thought it fitting since we began this manuscript with Archimedes’ famous quotation (“Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth”) to return in these final pages to the theme of standing on the verge of a great endeavor. And, although not rivaling the magnitude of Archimedes’ efforts, in contemporary life what is a more common experience—and more apt metaphor for individual challenge—than a golfer standing in the tee box readying to accept the challenge of the course ahead?
The golf challenge as we know it today began in eastern Scotland as a game of hitting pebbles over sand dunes. Banned in mid-15th century by James II ...
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