In my last season of baseball, I spent a great deal of summer days down at USC learning from a famous pitching coaching named Tom House.
Tom wasn't necessarily an incredible MLB prospect, but was rather made famous because he was the pitching coach for one of the most famous pitchers of all time, Nolan Ryan.
On a sunny SoCal day during a session together, Tom said something to me I would never forget.
"Evan. 10% of the time you are going to be amazing, 10% of the time you are going to suck worse than imaginable, and 80% of the time you are going to be just average. Champions are made in that 80%."
Absolutely amazing. Not complicated, but still amazing.
Now that may seem like a nasty realization about life, but there's a secret to all of this.
If you are going to wake up feeling "average" most of the time, you truly get to decide whether you become a champion that day or stay with the rest of the pack.
You can either become something or stay with everyone else.
While this may seem like a small decision to make, it is truly one of the most fundamental choices you can make.
Most of the time no one will ever witness the decisions you make during the day. However champions always have a fire inside of them that keeps them moving forward.
That's the game of life.
You are the one who knows how much effort you are giving.
The only way you can shape your life and become something entirely different than what you were before is to make completely different decisions than the ones you were making before. It's that simple.
So if you want to make it to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all, then you have to truly go for it.
If you don't, you will live in regret.
Make the decision that you're going to be a champion of those 80% days.
Tom wasn't necessarily an incredible MLB prospect, but was rather made famous because he was the pitching coach for one of the most famous pitchers of all time, Nolan Ryan.
On a sunny SoCal day during a session together, Tom said something to me I would never forget.
"Evan. 10% of the time you are going to be amazing, 10% of the time you are going to suck worse than imaginable, and 80% of the time you are going to be just average. Champions are made in that 80%."
Absolutely amazing. Not complicated, but still amazing.
Now that may seem like a nasty realization about life, but there's a secret to all of this.
If you are going to wake up feeling "average" most of the time, you truly get to decide whether you become a champion that day or stay with the rest of the pack.
You can either become something or stay with everyone else.
While this may seem like a small decision to make, it is truly one of the most fundamental choices you can make.
Most of the time no one will ever witness the decisions you make during the day. However champions always have a fire inside of them that keeps them moving forward.
That's the game of life.
You are the one who knows how much effort you are giving.
The only way you can shape your life and become something entirely different than what you were before is to make completely different decisions than the ones you were making before. It's that simple.
So if you want to make it to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all, then you have to truly go for it.
If you don't, you will live in regret.
Make the decision that you're going to be a champion of those 80% days.
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