The magic moment of learning: My Wii Baseball breakthrough moment
learning, personal development Add commentsI was playing Wii Baseball the other day and all of a sudden I realised that I could hit the ball. I had what I call a ‘breakthrough’ moment. Prior to that I was swinging and missing… trying and failing. All of sudden the pitcher hurled a fastball at me and BLAM over the fence. I had a breakthrough moment.
You can have your own breakthrough moment
Whenever you are learning anything or just starting out… you are really are crap at it. You know that feeling. It’s like the first time I attempted the guitar. I am no Eric Clapton or Steve Vai but I am getting there. However, I couldn’t hammer on or pull off (or rock for that matter) when I first began. I was struggling more and more each and every day then one … I had a breakthrough moment. I could play that song I couldn’t play without thinking about it. When you are learning something stick with it. Don’t just quit when it gets hard. Push against that until you ‘breakthrough it’ to the other side.
What stops the breakthrough moment
The breakthrough moment is stalled by thinking that you will never get there. Anything is possible to them that believe it is. What’s the difference between a winner and a loser. A winner loses and gets back up again… a loser quits and stays down. One of the best sayings I have heard is this: Never give up, never surrender. If you want to be good at something you have to practice but I can assure you that there comes a moment when you breakthrough.
As for me I am the baseball champion. I smashed a 9-1 game right after a 9-0 game the other day. Am I unbeatable? No. But I am a lot harder to beat now, that I can smack you out of the game before the end of the first innings. How did I get there? By playing it until I could time my swing right and pitch at 152km/h. That’s fast. The same principle applies to anything you wish to achieve and it’s not that hard to get there. You can become good at anything by having a winning attitude. I can assure you that you will ‘breakthrough’ to a place when you become a champion… just like me.
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April 9th, 2008 at 4:34 am
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