Things Engineers Like: Hate Losing

I know this topic may be a stretch for Things Engineers Like but I'm here to please and it's Monday! It's the best day of the week! But since this is the official site of the wiffleball team, The Wafflers, I must inform the fans of the result of today's game. So I will combine the posts.

The day started similar to Thursday, overcast with a slight chance of rain. As with the game before, the rain held out. The Wafflers won the coin toss to be the home team against the Melting Pot. The Melting Pot come out of the gates quickly with their bats but the great fielding, by Bowlingmaster, left the bases loaded with no runs scored. On the other hand, the Wafflers came out slow and this continued throughout the game. Bowlingmaster brought in two runs going 4 for 4 while I went 3 for 4 but the rest of the team went 1 for 11. The experienced Melting Pot team continued the hot hitting and eventually won the game with the score of 8-2.

And that's the end of the first season of the Wafflers. It was a heartbreaking loss for team.

Being so competitive, every loss digs deep inside of me. Most of my engineering friend are also very competitive (Probably not as competitive though. That's almost impossible) and take losses as personal as I do (Maybe?). I think losing may be my most dreadful thing to do which is quite odd since I lost to my big brother all the time growing up. Maybe I just had enough losing as a child and that's why I'm so competitive and never want to feel the emotions that come with losing.

Losses come with a moping period. It means that you could have done better if you put more time and effort.

With every loss (thankfully it doesn't happen very often), I think about what I could have done to change the result for probably too long. Right now, I'm thinking if I called a pop-up, it could have led to a shorter inning but instead it was a dropped ball (error) leading to more runs scored. But what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger! This especially goes for losses. All that losing to my brother has made me into a great person! And with each and every loss, I become even stronger and better with the lessons learned!

I hate to use this example but look at Apple. Apple almost went bankrupted in 1996 but made the most influential decision in the company's history in bringing its founder back in Steve Jobs, knowing full well he was the key to Apple's success.