Rory's Majestic Flow State

As Ulsterman McIlroy tore up the year's first golf Major, breaking records on a huge halfway lead, broadsheet sport columnist par excellence Oliver Brown asked him how it felt to be in this zone, whether he was even conscious of outside distractions;

“The only way I can describe it is that everything you see, any situation you come across, you find a positive in it. Then you see birdies, and ways to make birdies. So, hit in the trees at 13, fine, I can make a birdie doing it this way. Hit it in the trees at 15, same thing. Then you get your spots where you can attack, like the 16th, and feed it in there. Even when you find yourself out of position, you can still somehow see yourself making a birdie some way.”

You don't need to have discussed 'the good walk spoiled' as regular at the 19th to follow the deeper Sales meaning there.

For golf's birdie read selling's 'touch'. More formally think of the label gateway, which tend to be one of handful of staging posts. In fact, any transaction's genuine progress which brings the prospect along with our unique way of thinking to the exclusion of alternatives.

McIlroy came close, plenty of times, to blowing that mid-point mega lead. Yet holding on for eventual victory means he's now a generational talent and assured golfing legend.

His birdie-focus ought sit neatly within seller mindsets.

The stars among us are supposedly connected by underlying optimism.

The ability to find a positive in any daunting situation setting us apart.

I've often wondered how this fits with the fact superstars also seek to constantly qualify out. Which comes from a perhaps pessimistic yet precision thrust on why a deal won't come home.

Although how about his delicious closing thought;

Even when you find yourself out of position, you can still somehow see yourself making [hay] some way.

Imagine not only having that course through you, but knowing which positions you can be in trouble, and how you've proven to get out of them.