Kevin and the Giant Peach

Jaime Cevallos client list includes 10 major league baseball players. And that list is growing as word is traveling about how Jaime has helped them improve their batting swings. This is the middle of the story, though.

Jamie Cevallos’ story actually began with that first major league client. But how did he meet that first client? Well it actually happened because he’d applied one of the lessons of Tim Ferriss’ “The 4-Hour Workweek”.

In a subchapter titled, “Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic”, Tim Ferriss offers this insight:

“It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy- consuming. It is easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8’s.”

And, then, a few paragraphs down he offers the “why” this is true: “Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.”

What Jaime did with his batting swing training program was NOT what most people would have done which is starting with training average baseball players. He took Tim Ferriss’ advice and sought the BEST baseball players in the world to train. He did not go mediocre. He swung for the fences – pun intended. And he hit that homer.

What was his risk in doing this? Absolutely nothing.

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