Steer for Failure

Hector Hughes
3 min readNov 16, 2021

Next time your life is falling apart, remember to smile. It might just be a blessing in disguise.

Disruptive

Billy Beane had it all. Aged 18 he was one of the hottest baseball prospects on the planet. He had the speed, the throw, the swing. The sky was the limit.

But he bottled it. He failed to live up to the hype and spent a career knocking around the lower leagues.

That, however, might have been the best thing that ever happened to him. Because it planted the seed for what came next.

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Hector Hughes

Providing a digital detox in the countryside around London with Unplugged. I write a weekly email on the lessons learnt at: https://unplugging.substack.com/