Malcolm Gladwell on Golf

Well, he wasn't really talking about golf in a recent interview for TIME called "What's Next," but he was exactly right when he said, "I'd like to make a distinction between change and progress."

"To use a prosaic example, technology related to golf has improved and will continue to improve dramatically. Golf clubs are way better today than they were 10 years ago, and will be way better 10 years from now. Golf scores, however, have remained absolutely stable. This is an important distinction because historically when we talked about the future, we talk about the possibilities for change, which says that either we have deliberately lowered expectations or we're playing a game where we're pretending what we're talking about is progress when all we're doing is talking about change."

Gladwell is the author of "Blink" and a regular contributor to The New Yorker.

For a link to the entire interview, click on the title of this post.