Disclaimer.
If you remember one of Staind's best hits, "It's Been Awhile", it was filled with angst and disdain for the world when the protagonist felt that his "significant other" was being minimized for who he was. Anyway, I do promise that this article will be far from that; although, as some of my blog posts can get that way.
End of Disclaimer.
The last time I wrote something significant was the industry piece I wrote for the NBA. Today's article is a bit different because when you deal with life, not everything is going to be as peachy as its going to be. The reason why I write, as well as the reason why analysts put together their inferences into projections, and hypothesis, you want to see how what you wrote is equating to what actually occurred. I thought I was fairly wrong this year when it comes to a lot of things in life, and sports. Let me start with what I got right.
NBA
The Oklahoma City Thunder may be the #1 seed in the Western Conference.
The Miami Heat may be the #1 seed in the Eastern Conference.
The New York Knicks would get injured a lot.
In Life...
I don't know. I honestly got a lot of things wrong since I wrote that industry piece; such as continuous follow up with articles and hoping that I can get my writing off.
The New York Knicks won 50 games (and still have 6 games remaining).
The Lakers not winning as much because Kobe Bryant could not do everything as always.
In the last six months, I have spent myself spending more time reading relationship books such as Lies at the Altar by Dr. Robin L. Smith. I have downloaded self-help books, reading life stories of R.A. Dickey and Vince Lombardi. And the key thing about reading those books and having life fail at you consistently reminds me that authenticity and having some level of positive subjectivity needs to be inserted objective analysis. Authenticity is very difficult in today's age because you can take facts, analyze them and consider them authentic, but in reality any data that you read is laden with bias and limited on the factor of the stat.
The other day I wrote on a Duke of NBA Facebook post that Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers, and Los Angeles Clippers need to worry about the Technical Fouls they have accrued. I always believed that teams that have composure are better equipped to handle situation of success. Sometimes, we overlook into the stat as well. In baseball the two types of successful closers are (a) the walking unflappable types who seem to be reassured that everything will be alright, even when stressful situations are disastrous; and (b) the one's who walk the tightrope of mental insanity. When you have a difference between Mariano Rivera/Trevor Hoffman/John Franco and Jonathan Papelbon/Brian Wilson/Randy Myers. When you get teams that are too old and still continue to have success: New York Knicks with a 50-26 record, the Clippers with 91 Technical Fouls or Papelbon's stare, they seem to be just as effective as Rivera's stoic demeanor, the Spurs winning unpredictably, and how LeBron James argues so much yet has six Technical Fouls. There is always a gray area, an out-liner for success, and what is not normal can still be successful.
The last six months I had to learn that you need to understand not only your point of view, but also have to account for the points of views that are directly affected, opposing, and quite frankly those that say "You are not listening to what I am saying." May be it's the reason why I needed to read so many self-help books, because when you got the ideal that you get these facts, you get self-absorbed into knowing that what you think, and what you can infer is correct. Sometimes, it takes a bit of insanity and a bit of understanding to meet some middle ground. May be this will help when I do a scouting report someday in the future.
In the meanwhile, I hope what I learned and what I should use in the future will help develop into further accurate information in the future. Because very few people get it right, but very few people are daring to learn to see the other side, even fewer people try to utilize the other side, and the rare person or people get it right. My lofty goal is to get it right before it is all lost.
If you remember one of Staind's best hits, "It's Been Awhile", it was filled with angst and disdain for the world when the protagonist felt that his "significant other" was being minimized for who he was. Anyway, I do promise that this article will be far from that; although, as some of my blog posts can get that way.
End of Disclaimer.
The last time I wrote something significant was the industry piece I wrote for the NBA. Today's article is a bit different because when you deal with life, not everything is going to be as peachy as its going to be. The reason why I write, as well as the reason why analysts put together their inferences into projections, and hypothesis, you want to see how what you wrote is equating to what actually occurred. I thought I was fairly wrong this year when it comes to a lot of things in life, and sports. Let me start with what I got right.
NBA
The Oklahoma City Thunder may be the #1 seed in the Western Conference.
The Miami Heat may be the #1 seed in the Eastern Conference.
The New York Knicks would get injured a lot.
In Life...
I don't know. I honestly got a lot of things wrong since I wrote that industry piece; such as continuous follow up with articles and hoping that I can get my writing off.
The New York Knicks won 50 games (and still have 6 games remaining).
The Lakers not winning as much because Kobe Bryant could not do everything as always.
In the last six months, I have spent myself spending more time reading relationship books such as Lies at the Altar by Dr. Robin L. Smith. I have downloaded self-help books, reading life stories of R.A. Dickey and Vince Lombardi. And the key thing about reading those books and having life fail at you consistently reminds me that authenticity and having some level of positive subjectivity needs to be inserted objective analysis. Authenticity is very difficult in today's age because you can take facts, analyze them and consider them authentic, but in reality any data that you read is laden with bias and limited on the factor of the stat.
The other day I wrote on a Duke of NBA Facebook post that Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers, and Los Angeles Clippers need to worry about the Technical Fouls they have accrued. I always believed that teams that have composure are better equipped to handle situation of success. Sometimes, we overlook into the stat as well. In baseball the two types of successful closers are (a) the walking unflappable types who seem to be reassured that everything will be alright, even when stressful situations are disastrous; and (b) the one's who walk the tightrope of mental insanity. When you have a difference between Mariano Rivera/Trevor Hoffman/John Franco and Jonathan Papelbon/Brian Wilson/Randy Myers. When you get teams that are too old and still continue to have success: New York Knicks with a 50-26 record, the Clippers with 91 Technical Fouls or Papelbon's stare, they seem to be just as effective as Rivera's stoic demeanor, the Spurs winning unpredictably, and how LeBron James argues so much yet has six Technical Fouls. There is always a gray area, an out-liner for success, and what is not normal can still be successful.
The last six months I had to learn that you need to understand not only your point of view, but also have to account for the points of views that are directly affected, opposing, and quite frankly those that say "You are not listening to what I am saying." May be it's the reason why I needed to read so many self-help books, because when you got the ideal that you get these facts, you get self-absorbed into knowing that what you think, and what you can infer is correct. Sometimes, it takes a bit of insanity and a bit of understanding to meet some middle ground. May be this will help when I do a scouting report someday in the future.
In the meanwhile, I hope what I learned and what I should use in the future will help develop into further accurate information in the future. Because very few people get it right, but very few people are daring to learn to see the other side, even fewer people try to utilize the other side, and the rare person or people get it right. My lofty goal is to get it right before it is all lost.
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