Patterns of success: sports, language, and life

Brandles
10 min readMay 21, 2020

Patterns in Sports

There is no time for thinking in sports. Thinking is just too slow. Reactions must be engrained and subconscious. Consider baseball, America’s pastime.

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The average fastball of a MLB pitcher is 95 mph. A 95 mph fastball takes 400 milliseconds to reach homeplate. The average human reaction time is 250 milliseconds which leaves…

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