From the Founder, Brian Mazza 7/27

The Math of Success

We spend so much time chasing the outcome that we forget what it actually takes to get there.

Frank Sinatra: 1,200 songs. 209 hits. 17% success rate.

Babe Ruth: 8,399 at-bats. 714 home runs. 8.5% success rate.

Pablo Picasso: Approximately 150,000 pieces of art. Roughly 1,170 are considered masterpieces. 0.7% success rate.

The numbers are brutal.

What separates the greats isn’t that they rarely failed.

It’s that they produced more than everyone else.

They understood something most people don’t: your failures aren’t the opposite of success, they’re the price of admission.

Today, people quit after one bad meeting.
One rejected idea.
One missed shot.
One post that doesn’t perform.
One business that struggles.

The people we admire didn’t avoid failure.

They outlasted it.

Keep creating.
Keep swinging.
Keep shipping your work.

Because your next attempt might be the one that changes everything.

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