Something weird is happening with my golf game.
Six months ago my driver was the best club in my bag. Bombing it. Straight. Consistent. The one club I didn't have to think about.
Then I started working on my irons. And my short game. And my putting. Got better at all of them.
And somewhere in the process, I completely lost my driver.
Can't hit it. Hooks. Slices. Tops. The club that used to be automatic now feels like I'm holding it for the first time.
Here's the thing:
Nobody warned me this would happen. That getting better at one thing would make me worse at another. That the swing changes I made to fix my 7-iron would quietly destroy the muscle memory in my driver swing.
I see this constantly in interviews.
A candidate comes in and they've clearly been coached. They fixed their resume — it's clean, specific, good numbers. They fixed their LinkedIn — real headline, no wolf emojis. They prepped the company research. They even dressed right.
All the "irons" are dialed in.
And then the interviewer says, "Tell me about yourself," and the candidate launches into a 4-minute rehearsed monologue that sounds like it was written by ChatGPT and practiced in a mirror 30 times.
They polished everything else and lost the one thing that actually matters:
Being a real person in a conversation.
They got so focused on fixing the mechanics that they forgot how to just…talk.
The resume got them in the room. The prep got them warmed up. But the thing that gets you hired — the ability to connect with the tired human sitting across from you — that's the driver. And all that coaching killed it.
There's a chapter in 10,000 Interviews about why the most coached candidates are often the least memorable — and what the ones who actually get hired do differently in the first 60 seconds.
Chapter 5.
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https://unfaircareers.com/10000-interviews/
Kyle Mau