Home runs come from the same place as a single
There is a great quote from Jeff Bezos, CEO, and Founder of Amazon about baseball and business:
“We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs… baseball and business, however, is that baseball has a truncated outcome distribution. When you swing, no matter how well you connect with the ball, the most runs you can get is four. In business, every once in a while, when you step up to the plate, you can score 1,000 runs.”
I think this applies to life as well.
Our opportunities in life happen by chance, circumstance, and want of trying. In this quote, opportunities are “swings.”
Chance and circumstance rely on nature or other people, but our want is internal. We have some control over it. >We can take as many “want” swings as, well, we want.
The best part of the quote to me is in bold.
Life has no truncated outcome distribution, meaning that there is no artificial cap on what a swing can do. A home run clears the bases. In life, there are an unlimited amount of bases.
So, keep swinging.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 