Short interview where former MLB pitcher Jason Turley explains the changeup pitch in baseball and draws a parallel to entrepreneurship: both involve deceptive changes that require measured responses rather than emotional lunges. The piece advises entrepreneurs to 'keep your hands back'—i.e., avoid impulsive reactions when circumstances change.
For today's tasty burger morsel, former MLB pitcher Jason Turley teaches us how to deal with a change up in baseball and in business.
In baseball, the best pitch, I think, as a pitcher and the hardest pitch to hit as a hitter is the change up. And so it looks like it's a fastball, it's coming in, but it's a tough pitch because it's deceiving. And I think in business, there's things that change. There's things that change all the time. Especially for an entrepreneur that's starting a new business, things can change fast and they can be deceptive. And one of the key things in hitting a pitch, hitting a changeup, is keeping your hands back. Keeping your hands back. Because what hitters do is they see the changeup, it looks like a fastball, and they lunge towards that fastball. And if they've lunged as a hitter, they're done in business. An entrepreneur starts a business, or he's going, he's in his first year, second year, third year, whatever, and something changes, and all of a sudden he makes an emotional lunge and he makes a bad decision.
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