Coach Dana Cavalea uses baseball to explain why perfection is impossible and pointless. Success means focusing on your three hits out of ten at-bats, not the seven misses. Pick the pitches you can hit, swing hard, and stop fearing the miss.
Nobody bats 1,000, so stop trying.
What's the moral of the story? What's the teachable moment? What's the growth moment? Baseball is one of the few sports that I think rewards you for getting a hit 3 out of 10 times. And if you get a hit 3 out of 10 times, right, you are gonna be making millions of dollars.
Yeah. And the people in the game that win are the ones that are focused on the 3 and not the 7. They're focused on the 3 times they get a hit, not the 7 times they get out. Right. And that's it.
That's the logic that we need to look at things through as opposed to— our brain is 4 times as likely to focus on negative than we are as positive.
Yeah, totally. These, you know, even our players, right? We tell them nobody bats 1,000. So stop trying. Don't try to bat a thousand is perfection. The greatest ever have never done it. You will not be the first. Okay. So now that you know that, what do we do? The goal is to have competitive at-bats. Only swing at the pitches that you know you could hit or take a good swing on. So you're literally taking your day and your life one at-bat at a time, but more specifically One pitch at a time. And you can't be afraid to let a pitch go. But you better attack that fastball down the middle and hit it. Love it.
