About Last Night: Learning on the Job

I’m a kinetic learner. Given the option of a lecture or an interactive demonstration, I’ll give things a go myself 10 times out of 10. It will involve failure, but failure my body will remember more meaningfully than my mind might. Unsurprisingly, my tolerance for bungled attempts is higher than most, and that extends to my feelings on baseball, particularly player development. Even for the most auditory or visual of learners, there is value in attempting to perform the task asked of you at the level you’ll need to do so. Better still is learning to do so in low-stakes situations, much as the Astros allowed youngsters like José Altuve and George Springer to do.