Ryan Ripken

Wanting just, hey, it feels good when it goes right, but it's when things go wrong is where you learn the most.

And that's where I dug back into the baseball roots for me.

I didn't get discouraged when things didn't go wrong here in the media.

Because I can tell you what, Rob, this camera that I'm actually using right now was one of the first cameras I bought.

And I thought, you know what?

I'm at home.

I'm transitioning some of my equipment.

And so I'm looking at this camera right now, and I'm staring at it while I'm talking to you.

And it's the same camera when I watch back to one of my first videos I did two and a half years ago.

And some people will say, hey, it's not that bad.

But when I look at that, Ryan, I go, damn, you are a lot better than you were two and a half years ago.

And so whether it's failing, whether it's just observing, learning, that was the biggest thing I learned or experienced in this process.

And what I think is good, someone else might not think it's good.

So it's just really being in tune with yourself.

But the bigger thing is if you fail at something, great.

Go try it again.

In baseball, when you fail, you're worried about your job's going to be over.

This is done.

I like to say, even though pitchers are going to say, oh, it's hard.

Some of my best friends are pitchers.