Jim Murphy
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And so he felt really bad for throwing the ball in the dirt or whatever.
And so then that became a mental block and he had to
retire from baseball as a pitcher.
But then amazingly, one day his agent said, hey, let's go back and play as a position player.
Then he came back and that interesting about that, how the mind works, the home plate is 60 feet, six inches from a pitcher's rubber.
And he couldn't, sometimes he couldn't throw it where the catcher could even touch it.
But from from the outfield, he can throw it to third base and the third baseman not have to move his glove more than a foot or two.
And that's because from the outfield, there's no pressure to throw it to hit it, throw a strike.
It's just like putting in golf.
There's no pressure to sink a 50 foot putt, but there is pressure to sink a three footer.
Yeah, it's all based on the same thing.
It's the fear of rejection.
The way it plays out is if I miss a 50-foot putt, nobody's going to say, oh, I can't believe you missed that.
Oh, how terrible.
Boo.
That doesn't happen.
You miss a three-foot putt, people are going to be whispering.
They're going to be like, oh.
And you're going to feel, you could feel, wow, I'm a pro golfer and I missed a three foot putt.
Pro golfers shouldn't miss three foot putts.