If your swing positions are stressing you out, you’re oversized.
The reason you oversize is because you want massive gains.
But a $1,000 position you hold stress free for 200% gains is better than a $10,000 position you hold with massive stress and stop out for a $2,000 loss.
Please take notes.
NFL practice squad players earn $234K a year to never play a game. Brady says a lot of them prefer it that way.
$13,000 a week. Same facilities, same planes, same meals as the active roster. Super Bowl ring if the team wins. And zero risk of failing on national television. Brady watched this for 20 years and realized many practice squad players had already reached the exact outcome they wanted.
The active roster pays $840,000 minimum, three and a half times more. But it comes with something most people underestimate: public, measurable, weekly accountability. Drop a pass in the fourth quarter and 70,000 people watched it happen. When practice squad players got promoted into that pressure, they crumbled. Same arms, same legs, same speed. Their talent survived the jump. Their appetite for judgment didn't.
The $606,000 gap between practice squad and active roster is the annual price of pressure-avoidance. Enough NFL players pay it voluntarily that a seven-time Super Bowl champion noticed a pattern.
Every evaluation system on earth measures people when nothing is on the line.
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Every Dairy Queen I've visited looks like it's run by a mom and pop, with boxes and supplies visible everywhere. Everything other than the ice cream is quite awful.
DQ is a beautiful business. Most stores are franchised, so they require no capital. Under the right management it could have tripled in size, just like Starbucks. The quality of the ice cream has not changed, but the innovation in food and the look of the restaurants have declined under BRK ownership.
Buffett had more important decisions to make, like buying Apple or the Japanese trading conglomerates. Fair enough. But it tells you what BRK’s new CEO's actual job looks like.