Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua. Episode 1,822. A sport that I have worked

many years with is baseball. And baseball is very unique in that it's a game of failure. It literally

is a game of failure, particularly amongst the position players.

If a position player succeeds three out of ten times over the course of their career, they are one of the best to ever do it.

That's 70% fail rate, 30% success rate, you are one of the best to do it. And for many people,

that's hard to grasp. Think about your own job. Think about if you got three out of 10 and whatever

you did and you're considered great. Chances are that is not the case in your industry. Three out of ten is terrible,

but that just goes to show how difficult it is to hit a baseball, particularly in the major leagues

when you have the quality and the caliber of pitcher that they have in major leagues.

Now, the reason I share this is because a lot of times major league baseball players, professional

baseball players at any level or even amateur baseball players are learning how to navigate

and manage failure.

A question you'll often hear me ask is, what is your relationship like with failure?

How do you define it?

How do you define success?

And however a player defines success and failure and the relationship with failure will

dictate how they respond to failure and how they respond to failure and how they

carry failure and how they adapt to failure will have a huge effect on how they keep going when times get tough,

which leads me to ask you listening to this.

What's your definition of failure?

How good are you at responding to it? What's your definition of success? Do you need to

it? What systems or processes have you built for yourself to help you navigate failure better?

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