Celebrating Those Who are Passionately Committed (and Wrong)

Can you be passionately, decisively wrong? From a baseball perspective, there’s a phenomenon when baserunning where hesitancy is always bad. As a result, players are encouraged to make a choice and commit to it.

Being in the middle is bad for everyone involved. 

When baserunning we call the process of evaluating a play “getting a read” and the goal is to make a good read and act on it. Like I said above, however, hesitancy kills, so we celebrate committed, passionate decisions that are made in good faith even if they have a negative outcome. 

In the real world, I observe how this type of action is almost never celebrated and it’s a shame. I think we all should trust our decision-making process and live in a place where we can make a choice and passionately commit to it regardless of outcome. 

After all, half-stepping is bad for everyone in the “real world,” too.