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Great quotation that I have scribbled down in my notebook. I don’t have a specific source for it, but it ties in with something from Babe Ruth, the so-called Sultan of Swat:
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
Did you know that Ruth held the record not only for the most home runs but also for the most strikeouts?
I often tell myself that I need to pull my socks up and step up to the plate. Hmmm. For someone who never watches baseball I seem to have an affinity for its metaphors. Probably a heritage from my dear father, who loved baseball and as he neared the end of his life could still remember statistics from decades back even as his short-term memory failed.
So a swing and a miss is better than no swing at all. Not a matter of absolute truth but a good guiding principle. What do you think?