The San Francisco Giants are coming off an awful road trip (3-7 against Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Colorado). Their batters just couldn’t get any traction in other parks.
We all have bad days. A meeting that doesn’t go well. A disagreement with a co-worker. A computer malfunction. Being criticized unfairly.
The question is, what do you do with that bad day when you get up the next morning?
In a recent Freakonomics post, ESPN baseball reporter and analyst Buster Olney took questions from readers. Here’s what he says he’s tried to learn from talking to professional baseball players:
Question: What’s the best insight on life that you’ve learned over all of your years following baseball? I’d love to hear your thoughts, short and sweet (think the length of a note you would have signed in a high school yearbook). — J.C.
Answer: Most baseball players have a remarkable ability to put a bad day behind them, and I saw that and tried to draw on that. If you went 0-for-4 one day, that didn’t necessarily have to affect your ability to go 4-for-4 the next day — if you work to turn the page emotionally. I have tried to use that in my own work.
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