Rather, we should reframe what the trouble spots on the table are used to doing for us. In other words, I see the side pockets as convenient aim markers, telling me where the table length is halved.
The side pockets are not bottomless pits of doom but table aids quietly informing me where the cue ball should not go. The more I fear the scratch, the more my mental pre-visualization of a stroke is a white ball scratching.
If I notice the side pockets at all, they are spots where the cue ball should not go, so I focus for a moment on where the cue ball should go. How then can you accomplish this task, the reassigning of negatives to positive outcomes?
