Phil Oye

With the baseball playoffs upon us and my beloved Yankees in the thick of things, I thought it appropriate to dig up Malcolm Gladwell’s story The Art of Failure where he outlines the difference between choking and panicking. It is a great read.

Plenty of people are choking in the postseason and I found Gladwell’s explanation interesting—choking is thinking too much. And of course, Yogi Berra was there first when he said “You can’t think and hit at the same time.”