Major League Baseball Players

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The other way to have a fresh start is not only in time, but in space and in place. And there's some interesting research involving majorly baseball players that makes that very clear. At high lights, we want fresh starts, and we want to give them to the people we're coaching, menturing a parenting. But when things are going really well, we actually wantto want to get out of the way. We don't want disruptions because that can break the momentum.

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