It’s silly for a baseball player to focus on hitting 1.000 for the season, to be a perfect hitter. If that is the one focus, the one singular goal, they will live in constant disappointment…which has a tendency of leading to less hits and more disappointment.
On the other hand, if a baseball player understands that hitting just .400 will be wildly helpful to the team and help the team win lots of games and probably win themselves a lot of batting awards on top of it all…the player will be much less concerned with the imperfection…the fact that sixty percent of the time he’s failing at getting a hit. The player isn’t focused on whining and complaining about missing sixty percent of the time because the forty percent success rate is just that…a success.
It’s a matter of focusing on greatness rather than perfection.
Perfection says when you step up to the plate you need to get a hit ALL the time.
Greatness says you need to step up to the plate and get a hit THIS time.
Perfection is great.
But greatness is rarely perfect.
Step up to the plate with everything you have at that moment in time. And then do it again and again.
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