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1. How did the pitching coach get the author to stop “overthinking” on the mound?


2. Why did Bryan believe it was better to learn a change-up first?


3. How does one throw a change-up?


4. Why does a change-up work?


5. What makes a good pitching coach?
To be able to make the pitcher be their own coach.
Teaches technics for people to forget their insecurities.


More thoughtful questions


1. What can we learn from the pitching coach that could translate to how we learn in school or with writing?



2. What would the equivalent of a “change-up” be in writing?


3. Explain what you think the author means by the following selection:
Failure, in many ways, is the default setting in baseball. A pitcher can be on a roll and cruising through a game, but he is always just one bad pitch, or one fielding mistake, away from a meltdown. The thing Bryan Price teaches is not how to win all the time. What he teaches is how to right yourself when you falter or fail.

Very rarely is a pitcher perfect, everyone makes mistakes. You can't re-do a pitch, but as a writer you can keep re-doing that one paragraph until it is perfect.