Simon Sinek brings up a great point on his Re:Focus blog “Are you willing to strikeout?” He talks about Babe Ruth, who set the home run record, while at the same time setting the league strike-out record.
Most people want to hit home runs, the problem is they are afraid to fail in order to get there. As Babe Ruth proved, you can’t have one without the other. It’s perfectly fine to be a good, solid player who doesn’t go down swinging that often…but it also means you won’t hit that many home runs. Those players are needed on a team – they are the consistent and reliable players.
That’s pretty much how I view some of the projects that I work on. The tasks of each of my sites may seem overwhelming, but I feel like I wouldn’t want it any other way. I’d much rather hit the home run and strike out, than being a singles hitter. Like the old saying goes, ‘Go big or go home!’.
One thing I probably would disagree with Simon on is the notion of the ‘fail’. I don’t think Babe Ruth was trying to be the strike out king. He just realized that he may strike out along the way of smacking a home run. The same thing applies for entrepreneurs, don’t just give up and think ‘I’ll just fail at this and move on’. I would say re-assess and re-define and get back in the box and start swinging for the fences again.
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