The year was 1935.
Babe Ruth sets the record for most career home runs with 714.
But there's a second "ugly" record he broke that year that no one knows about...
As Babe Ruth walks across the field, the Boston Braves fans all rise up giving him a standing ovation.
His famous days with the Yankees had passed and he was playing one last season with the Braves team (now in Atlanta).
Ruth was old and partially injured during this last game.
Like all other great athletes, his glory days had finally come to an end.
With that final walk-off, many fans in the crowd were thinking about his legendary career.
Especially the record for the most home runs in a career.
But with that last game, he also set the record for the most career strikeouts...
Ruth had tallied up 1,330 strikeouts.
A record that wouldn't be broken for another 29 years...
No one remembers this strikeout record though!
We remember him for being a Great Athlete.
The baseball world loved "The Sultan of Swat"
Hopefully, you found that short anecdote interesting.
But what's actually the most important lesson here?
Well, there are two lessons you need to take from this story.
One is that you have to fail a lot... to succeed a lot.
Very simple, but very hard to do.
Most of the Great Athletes, Artists, Business Figures, Inventors, etc. all failed more than anyone else.
But they found it within themselves to charge onward regardless.
Back in Ruth's time, strikeouts were a big deal too.
A strikeout would be considered disgraceful, more so than today, yet he swang for the fences...
The second lesson here is that no one even cares about your failures.
As long as you keep swinging and accomplish something great, that greatness will be what people remember you for.
Pablo Picasso made 13,500 paintings and over 100,000 prints and engravings.
But what do we remember him for?
Obviously, there are a lot of failed paintings in those numbers above, but we remember him for his great work.
Same idea.
KNOWLEDGE:
-Fail. And fail A LOT to get to your desired destination.
-No one remembers the failures anyway, so don't waste time worrying about them.
The pattern of failing immensely before succeeding immensely is prevalent among all the greats.
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