70% of Failures = Hall of Fame Worthy

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7/10 Failure Rate is still good enough for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The average hall of famer bats at a .303. Yet we beat ourselves up if we fail.

Hall of famers keep showing up. They are consistent. They are more than their batting average.

I get it, maybe you can’t fail 70% of the time at your job. But, if you are striking out on job interviews or not landing interviews… remember, it just takes one.

I’m not a huge baseball fan, but I recently heard Ken Burns, the famous documentarian and huge baseball fanatic, talk about this and it got me thinking…

Why on earth are we so hard on ourselves if 70% failure is a good predictor of HOF induction? When the world’s best entrepreneurs tell us they failed over and over again before they found the right success formula?

Be kind to yourself.

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It is so true. I played video games when I was younger, and some levels were hard to beat, but I still kept going because, in the end, I knew I would win the game. This requires failure and an understanding of what works and what does not work. It was the same before I got my data role, and sometimes rejections suck, but it takes one yes to land your opportunity.

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Well said… keep going, applying lessons, and you’ll win the game. Gaming can really build up a lot of grit and persistence in people. Just like sports - a lot of those lessons can also be learned through video games. The challenge is just how to apply those lessons to all other things in life.

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