For those that didn’t know…
Coming out of high school…. Parker was one of the top players coming out of high school.
A switch hitting middle infielder with pop.
Following his accident, he focused on only hitting from the right side, and completely changed his style of swinging…
The hands are still there…
The HEART has only grown stronger
Here is a video of him when he first got out of the hospital….
He went to the freaking cages to work on seeing the ball from the right side
We’re not all built like him.
Yes he is human….. but every step seems Super Human to me
Keep growing baby!
🤟🏴☠️
Dan Lanning's coaching career has taken him all over the country, but his time at Memphis changed he and his family's life forever.
@JenLada shares how the @oregonfootball head coach put his family first.
True resilience 👏
After having his right leg amputated from a boating accident in 2022, ECU sophomore @ParkerByrd11 makes his collegiate debut. #BiggerThanBaseball
🎥: @ECUBaseball
This really is the kind of thing that makes you look in the mirror and ask yourself…”am I impacting others in a positive way like this young man is?” This is really really great. Wow.
In 2001, Warren Buffett gave a talk at the University of Georgia.
He asked them the most Warren Buffett question ever:
• If you could invest in a friend and get 10% of their income for life -- who would you pick?
Once the students answered the question, he then asked this:
• Why would you invest in that person?
• What character traits do they have?
Now they have a list of character traits to adopt.
Shortly after this, Buffett asked:
If you could short a friend's earnings, who would you pick and why?
Now you have a list of character traits to avoid.
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1. Do not think this thought experiment is only about money.
You can use it for whatever currency you value.
E.g. Happiness coin
If you could get 10% of a friend's happiness, who would you invest in and why?
If you could short someone's happiness, who would you pick and why?
You can run the same thought experiment with Fitness coin, Friendship coin, Romance coin, etc`
2. This thought experiment is genius because it hacks a bug in life's video game:
Humans are terrible at self-awareness.
But we are great at spotting things in other people.
E.g. If your friend is in the wrong relationship, you can realize in 10 minutes what may take them 10 years.
Daniel Kahneman summarised his book on cognitive biases with the following:
“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.” - Daniel Kahneman
3. Nuance - It has to be purely from merit.
Buffett says it can't be because someone will inherit a large sum from their parents.
It has to be based on their behavior.
E.g. If you want 10% of someone's fitness coin, it's not because of incredible genetics -- is because of the actions they take.
His life is a miracle. For the first, Zay Jones sits down to open up on... everything. From that night he nearly hurled himself through a window 30 floors high to today, to being an inspiration: https://t.co/CPss3XX5fC
Over 1000 games in the minor leagues, plenty of chances to quit.
Drew Maggi gets to tell everyone that he played Major League Baseball
“Anything is possible. Never give up”
In honor of ECU playing at NC State tonight…a trip down memory lane to one of the worst calls at a sporting event ever.
This ball was ruled foul, before the umpires gathered and overturned it to a fair ball (this was before replay in regular season college baseball).
5’11” 185 RHR - JC and 2 small 4yr schools taken in 28th round. Spent 15 seasons in show & pitched in 821 games. He earned the rare privilege of leaving the game on his own terms.
Listen to him, this is what plus makeup is kiddos.
This is what we loose with a 20 round draft.