Moneyball the Art of Winning and Unfair Game - Christian Callaghan

Put yourself in the shoes of a general manager that was given one of the lowest budgets to be recorded in in MLB history. Now create a team that is going to take you to the division series and have the team with 20 straight games in a row. This is the story of Moneyball and how one man took a franchise from essentially being impoverished to one of the most competitive teams in the MLB. This book is based on a nonfiction encounter with a man named Billy Beane who became the general manager for the Oakland A’s and had to take his franchise from having little chance of success to a team that people didn’t even recognize. 


This story is very prevalent in all of our lives. We must understand that, regardless of the circumstances in our journey, we must play the cards that we have been given in order to succeed in meaning making, which is how Beane plays his cards. There is a lesson to learn about the drive and dedication that one man had to continue on his path to making a difference on his team.


He was able to take his players who were undervalued and underappreciated and apply them in such a way that they were able to bring up the value of the team significantly. In order to make our meaning, we must employ a specific effort in the journey so that it can reward us with peace in knowing we are on the right path. This is how Moneyball applies to meaning making and how we should apply aspects of valuing ourselves to a higher degree to continue our journey.


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