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The Most Important Thing That a Young Ball Player Can Learn Is That You Can't Be Good Every Day
I'm writing about Lou Gehrig in the book that I'm doing now on self discipline. And there's this thing I was just thinking, I was just working on it honestly before we talked. But he goes through, he sort of goes through this slump early in his career. And he sort of always been really good. So when he goes to the slump, he's like despondent, right? Like he thinks he gets knocked down to the minor leagues and he thinks they're going to cut him. It's this sort of downward spiral that he's in. The scout that had discovered him sort of gets dispatched by the owner of the Yankees to find him in a different city