Max Greyserman Talks Staying Healthy with Scoliosis

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00:00For you, how were you able to not get too far in front of yourself?

00:09I know you said you wanted to get back and start working at it, but was there something

00:14that would kind of switch in your brain during that time off where you're like, you know

00:18what, I am good enough, like I'm going to let this thing, you know, heal itself.

00:22And when I come back, I have, you know, maybe just a little different perspective.

00:27I think that kind of goes to the mental game in terms of comparing yourself to other players.

00:33I think it's really important not to do that.

00:35Your mind inherently wanders and wants to always compare yourself to someone else.

00:40But you're kind of on your own journey and your own time.

00:44And so it's really important not to be like, oh, I'm beating this guy and look what he's

00:49doing.

00:50I should be like that because then it's kind of a negative spiral.

00:52You need to work on your process and your routine and your practice schedule and stay

00:57in your lane and then you'll get to that level.

01:00And then on the perspective side with taking time off from injury, I basically went and

01:07I shadowed my brother-in-law a little bit.

01:09I wouldn't say I went to work, but I was kind of looking at other avenues, reading a few

01:13books.

01:14He was working in real estate, so I was just figuring out maybe golf wasn't for me.

01:20I don't know.

01:21But then I think in that time off, it made me appreciate what I was doing with golf a

01:27little bit more.

01:28Yeah.

01:29And so when I came back, it was more so when I came back, I knew that plan B was going

01:36to be okay.

01:37I was always talking to my parents about plan A and plan B growing up, so that's why I kind

01:41of went to Duke and tried to establish myself around great people and smart people and learn

01:46from them.

01:47But I didn't really know what plan B was.

01:49So I was always scared.

01:50If golf failed, what would I do?

01:52Well, now I kind of had a sense of maybe what I would do.

01:55And so I think that gave me a little bit more comfort of going back to golf and knowing that

02:00if this fails, that it's going to be okay.

02:04And at the same time, that it's time to get to work.

02:07And all the years of people telling me how good I was and me not believing in myself,

02:13I think was always a problem.

02:14And Jeff always told me how much he believed in me.

02:17My mom always told me that and stuff like that.

02:19And it finally sat inside me and I finally believed in myself.