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LEADERSHIP Your greatness is not limited to nor defined by how you perform on the field. You were created for greatness. Baseball can be used as a modality for a higher understanding, to take peoples’ wisdom, knowledge and understanding to the next level. The good news is that we don’t need to build the infrastructure- the composition of baseball is filled with opportunities to succeed and fail. The question becomes: are we seizing those failures as opportunities to build positive character or are we rushing through them in order to celebrate the wins? Let’s get started. Thailand Cave Rescue If you were trapped in a cave for hours or, worse yet, days without food, water, sunlight or any comforts, the last thing you might be thinking about would be about leadership. You’d want to get out. The cave is not unlike a tomb. It is dark, dank, eerily quiet and isolated. Sensory deprivation typically heightens the other senses, thus hearing, touch, smell and taste become more augmented than sight. Every word that is uttered matters. Every sound instills hope that help is on the way and your isolation is about to end. Your confinement intensifies a craving for contact with the outside world. Fortunately for the soccer team in Thailand that got trapped in an underground cave, the coach understood the immediate 2