5 Life Lessons College Baseball Taught Me — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00Here's five lessons I learned playing
2. 0:01college baseball. I'm currently 24 years
3. 0:03old and I've been out of baseball for 2
4. 0:05years now. I played college ball for 5
5. 0:06years. My first year was the 2020 co
6. 0:09year. So, you all know how that how that
7. 0:11went. So, my first year of college ball
8. 0:12was pretty crazy, but I've learned a lot
9. 0:14of lessons from college and playing
10. 0:16baseball throughout my entire life. And
11. 0:18here's some lessons that I think can
12. 0:20carry over into life. So, lesson number
13. 0:22one, we have who you surround yourself
14. 0:23with is the number one key to your your
15. 0:26success. All right. the team you play
16. 0:28for in high school in travel ball. It
17. 0:30determines a ton in how you go about,
18. 0:33you know, getting recruited, playing
19. 0:35time. I mean, it determines a ton of
20. 0:37stuff. It determines how hard you will
21. 0:38work. It determines what you think
22. 0:40actually being good is. It determines
23. 0:41what you actually classify as being
24. 0:43successful as a baseball player is. And
25. 0:45it's the same in real life. You know, if
26. 0:47your friends are all content with being
27. 0:49overweight, being 20% body fat or more,
28. 0:52they're all content with just staying in
29. 0:53a 9 to5 that sucks their soul. They're
30. 0:55all fine with, you know, just partying
31. 0:58all the time, not doing anything with
32. 0:59their lives except just showing up,
33. 1:01being the zombie all the time, you know,
34. 1:03that's going to lead you to having those
35. 1:04expectations as well. And it's the same
36. 1:07in baseball. If you surround yourself
37. 1:08with a ton of people that don't care
38. 1:09about baseball, basically, it's going to
39. 1:12be much harder to be successful. You
40. 1:14see, for me, I had an issue in high
41. 1:15school with a team that did not care
42. 1:17about being good at baseball. Whenever I
43. 1:19got to college, I finally seen players
44. 1:21that cared about baseball, and it took
45. 1:22my playing abilities to another level. I
46. 1:24started smashing the ball, hitting the
47. 1:26ball consistently in college. In high
48. 1:28school, you know, I didn't have anybody
49. 1:29really pushing me. I was like the number
50. 1:31one person that cared about baseball and
51. 1:33nobody else like truly did. When I got
52. 1:35to college, it was a team full of people
53. 1:36that actually cared. Okay? And that's
54. 1:39why I think it's super important because
55. 1:40imagine in high school if I actually had
56. 1:42people that cared about playing baseball
57. 1:43around me, it would have made me that
58. 1:45much better. I would have had that much
59. 1:46of a better opportunity to play college
60. 1:47ball at a better school. This is why
61. 1:49it's so vital to surround yourself with
62. 1:52good people. All right, the second thing
63. 1:54that playing college baseball taught me
64. 1:56was genetics play a massive role in your
65. 1:59success, but it's possible to overcome
66. 2:01disadvantages with enough work. All
67. 2:03right, I'm not here to sugar coat.
68. 2:05Genetics matter a ton when it comes to
69. 2:06athletics. It's it's the number one
70. 2:08thing that's going to determine if you
71. 2:09go pro, play college ball. You know,
72. 2:11college ball, I think with enough work,
73. 2:13most people can play college ball if
74. 2:15they put in enough work throughout the
75. 2:16years growing up. Now, getting to the
76. 2:18pros in major leagues, genetics, let's
77. 2:21let's be honest, it matters a ton. It
78. 2:22matters a ton. Now, in real life, what
79. 2:25how would this, you know, impact? What
80. 2:28genetics when it comes to bodybuilding,
81. 2:30per se? Um, you have some people that
82. 2:31would touch weights and they
83. 2:32automatically blow up. You have others
84. 2:33that have to do five, six, seven years
85. 2:35to get enough growth to look good
86. 2:37compared to a guy that just touched the
87. 2:38weights for a year, not even a true
88. 2:40plan, eating whatever they want, and
89. 2:41they blew up. It's the same with
90. 2:42baseball, right? You have the guys that,
91. 2:44you know, they're like 6'5 and they just
92. 2:47naturally throw 90 miles per hour or
93. 2:49harder. They basically get handed a free
94. 2:51pro contract without putting in too much
95. 2:53work. This is how it's like in life too
96. 2:54with certain stuff. Let's say it's
97. 2:55muscle building, you know, maybe it's a
98. 2:57crazy high IQ. You just actually apply
99. 3:00yourself a little bit and boom, you have
100. 3:01a crazy business. Um, maybe you're
101. 3:04naturally born very charismatic. Okay,
102. 3:07that's a huge advantage. But like I
103. 3:09said, with enough work, you can overcome
104. 3:10these disadvantages. All right, it's
105. 3:12enough work, you know, enough reading.
106. 3:14If you have bad IQ, you you'll get
107. 3:16smarter and eventually I think anybody
108. 3:17can make six figures a year if they
109. 3:19learn and try to, right? Um, and another
110. 3:22thing about the genetics thing, listen,
111. 3:23I'm 5'8. Um, playing college baseball at
112. 3:255'8, it's it's a pretty pretty good um
113. 3:29pretty good success. And I started every
114. 3:32single year I was in college. Um, but
115. 3:34yeah, just to give y'all a reference,
116. 3:35you know, baseball or sports in general,
117. 3:37it's so dependent on your height. Let's
118. 3:39be honest, it really is. in the MLB,
119. 3:41which is, you know, this was my dream as
120. 3:42a kid was to make it to the major
121. 3:44leagues, um, like a lot of people's
122. 3:46dreams are, okay? But in the MLB, it's
123. 3:48less than 1% of MLB players are 5'8 or
124. 3:51shorter. I'm 5'8. And then it's the
125. 3:54average height of 6'1 in the big
126. 3:55leagues. Now, this is not to say, oh,
127. 3:57I'm just I couldn't do it because of my
128. 3:59height. Um, it's just to say that the
129. 4:01height is super important, okay? It just
130. 4:03is because what does height lead to? It
131. 4:04leads to your ability to throw harder,
132. 4:06hit harder, run faster, cover more
133. 4:08ground. Okay? And this is just the
134. 4:09brutal facts of life, okay? You know,
135. 4:11sometimes you have to face it. Sometimes
136. 4:12you have to face it. Now, I worked
137. 4:14really hard. I worked really hard, but I
138. 4:15didn't work entirely crazily hard. Now,
139. 4:18if I was 6'2 and born with that height,
140. 4:20I probably would have went to a much
141. 4:22better college, maybe even got draft a
142. 4:23pro. But let's just face it, the height
143. 4:25is a huge thing. Okay. Now, number
144. 4:28three, hunger cannot be taught. Because
145. 4:31listen, there's a ton of 6'2, six foot
146. 4:33three guys. Like I said, born with
147. 4:35everything. Born with all the
148. 4:36athleticism in the world, but they don't
149. 4:38have the hunger. So guess what happens?
150. 4:41They never make it. They they don't make
151. 4:43it. I know guys that were like 6'3
152. 4:44throwing 90 93 as 16 17 year olds, but
153. 4:48they don't make it because they didn't
154. 4:48put in the work. They didn't sacrifice
155. 4:51partying. They didn't sacrifice the
156. 4:52girls. Things of that nature, right? So
157. 4:54it cannot be taught.
158. 4:56You know, you got people that are
159. 4:57spoonfed all these genetics. They're
160. 4:58spoonfed the connections and they still
161. 5:00don't reach whatever heights that they
162. 5:02possibly could have. And then you also
163. 5:04have the guys like Jose Atuve of the
164. 5:06world. He's 5'6. His hunger was
165. 5:08insatiable.
166. 5:10Work ethic was insatiable and he he
167. 5:12defied all odds and became one of the
168. 5:14best baseball players of all time. 5
169. 5:16foot six. You know, he put in the work.
170. 5:19He overcame his disadvantages. He was
171. 5:22very hungry. All right. It's super
172. 5:24possible. All right. Now, it's very
173. 5:26unlikely. That's like, you know, one in
174. 5:28a million chance, maybe even more. Like
175. 5:31one in a freaking 5 million chance,
176. 5:32right? But like I said, hunger cannot be
177. 5:35taught. Cannot be taught. This marker is
178. 5:37going out. Your mind lesson number four
179. 5:40I've learned is your mind controls
180. 5:43everything. It controls everything. I
181. 5:46remember whenever I went through
182. 5:48different ruts during baseball, like I
183. 5:50went I would go through a baseball
184. 5:51hitting slump, which if y'all don't know
185. 5:53what that is, it's whenever you're at
186. 5:54the plate and you just cannot hit the
187. 5:56ball. Basically, you're just struggling.
188. 5:57It's like nothing's going your way. Or
189. 5:59if I'm in the field, I miss a ground
190. 6:01ball and then it compounds and
191. 6:03snowballs. These used to happen to me in
192. 6:05high school before my mind developed and
193. 6:07matured and I became a much better
194. 6:09thinker. Whenever I started thinking
195. 6:11better, my baseball game went to another
196. 6:13level. I used to be scared of the ball
197. 6:16getting hit to me. I used to think, "Oh
198. 6:17my god, if it gets hit to me, I might
199. 6:18make an error." Or I'd go to the plate,
200. 6:22if I struck out twice that day, I'm
201. 6:23like, "Oh, I can't strike out again."
202. 6:25Like these were very limiting mindsets
203. 6:27to have and nobody was teaching me how
204. 6:29to overcome this. And then one day and
205. 6:32then one day I discovered this guy named
206. 6:34Trosky. He created a podcast and he
207. 6:37would talk about the mind. He would call
208. 6:39it the sixth tool. In baseball there's
209. 6:41five tools. They're all physical tools.
210. 6:43And then there's a sixth tool. And he
211. 6:45would call this what the big leaguers
212. 6:46have which is their ability to handle
213. 6:49adversity. their ability to play with
214. 6:53confidence, swagger, and be a rock, be a
215. 6:55bulldog, be the grinder. They were the
216. 6:57person that can bounce back anytime they
217. 6:59made an error. They struck out. It
218. 7:00didn't shake them. They were a rock.
219. 7:02They were unphasable. And I just
220. 7:04continued to listen to this dude before
221. 7:06every single game in college. And I kid
222. 7:09you not, I had the best fielding
223. 7:12fielding career possible as a college
224. 7:14baseball player. I legit barely made
225. 7:16errors. I don't think anybody made less
226. 7:18errors than me in my five years of
227. 7:19playing college baseball on any of my
228. 7:21teams I played. Now, of course, I made
229. 7:23errors because it's going to happen when
230. 7:24you play baseball. But I contribute this
231. 7:27to Trroski, the mindset. My mindset was
232. 7:30everything when it came to that. Same
233. 7:31with the hitting. If I'm thinking I'm
234. 7:33worried in my head or if I'm thinking,
235. 7:34"Oh, I'm going to I'm going to smash
236. 7:35this fool, I would hit the ball better."
237. 7:38It's it's just how it is, right? And
238. 7:40this is just like it is in real life. If
239. 7:43you cannot overcome a minor setback, if
240. 7:46you cannot overcome, you know, a craving
241. 7:48to food, if you cannot overcome your
242. 7:51sleep, you didn't sleep enough and you
243. 7:53now you don't want to hit the gym,
244. 7:55right? If you can't overcome those
245. 7:56things, it's all of a mind thing. Like,
246. 7:59of course, your body can feel one one
247. 8:01way, but your mind can overcome that.
248. 8:03Your mind is way more powerful than your
249. 8:05actual feelings. Okay? So, you need to
250. 8:08control your thoughts, control your
251. 8:09mind, and you will be a much better and
252. 8:12and and productive person. Okay? Lesson
253. 8:15number five I've learned is you create
254. 8:16your own luck. All right? How hard you
255. 8:19work, how often you put yourself out
256. 8:21there, it creates your own luck. All
257. 8:22right? Things I should have done in
258. 8:24baseball, I didn't do. I should have
259. 8:26emailed more people. I should have tried
260. 8:28to DM more people. I should have tried
261. 8:29to put myself out there more. These were
262. 8:32mistakes I made. But listen, I was a
263. 8:33kid. I did not know any better. I didn't
264. 8:35really have the guidance of exactly how
265. 8:37to do stuff, you know, and um honestly I
266. 8:41was pretty shy, like super shy in um
267. 8:43high school. I was so shy
268. 8:46and um I would not put myself out there
269. 8:48basically. But uh yeah, like I said, you
270. 8:51create your own luck. How hard you work,
271. 8:53how often you work, how many times you
272. 8:54reach out to people, how much
273. 8:56information you're willing to learn, how
274. 8:58much information you're willing to
275. 8:59apply, it all creates your own luck when
276. 9:01it comes to baseball. And just like in
277. 9:02real life, okay, will you learn from the
278. 9:05people before you that's done exactly
279. 9:07what you are trying to do? Will you
280. 9:09actually apply the information you
281. 9:11learned? How fast can you do stuff? How
282. 9:14fast how fast can you iterate? All of
283. 9:16this stuff creates your own luck. Okay?
284. 9:19And your ability to persevere even when
285. 9:21stuff isn't going your way is ultimately
286. 9:24the number one thing to success. So that
287. 9:26is five lessons I learned from playing
288. 9:28college baseball. And all of these
289. 9:30lessons have a ton to do with real life.
290. 9:33Okay, hope youall enjoy this video. I'm
291. 9:35out. Click some links below. Check them
292. 9:37out. Peace.