A 30% success rate is excellent, whether you're batting in baseball or closing sales. That means 70% of your attempts fail, and that's normal. The key is adopting a "next play" mindset: move on from mistakes instead of dwelling on them.
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I saw them interview. It was a weird question for a major league player, but he goes, 100 at-bats, how many hits are you going to get? 30. 30 if they're great. Does it make sense? 20, 25. You know what I mean? A guy gets 35, dude, he's on the news out of 100. So he's failing 65, 70, 75% of the time. But then when Maddox, when they're little, they want to hit a home run at every at-bat and they don't want to strike out ever. So what do we spend most of the time teaching the kids as they grow up? It's a hard game. It's a game of errors. It's a game of mistakes. You got to move on from the mistakes. You can't let them linger. You just have to move on. Next play. So they tell them every time, next play. Next phone call. Correct. That's normal in life everywhere. And for some unknown reason, in this little bubble of our industry, people allow us— because I fell for it— to pretend that this ain't real life and the shit don't happen. Again, you go out and hit 30 out of 100, 3 out of 10, you're considered great. Now imagine you run 100 appointments and let's just pretend you close 30. What's the average one pay you? $1,000. Okay. But we're all mad about the 70 we missed. Mm-hmm. That's good.