Stoic lessons from baseball

Ryan Holiday · · 14 min

Ryan Holiday draws parallels between Stoic philosophy and professional baseball, showing how principles like the dichotomy of control and embracing obstacles apply to sports and everyday life.

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The gist

  1. You can't control outcomes or others, only your effort and response, so focus your energy there.
  2. Negative visualization, imagining worst-case scenarios in advance, prepares you better than positive thinking alone.

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