Quantifying satisfaction

In baseball, many a batter has envied a batting average of 200 or better.  Pitches come in fast and low, sometimes fast and high.  Pitches curve from left to right and from right to left.  Balls come straight for the corner of the plate, then tail off.  Sometimes the pitches change up and come in more slowly than anticipated.

That's why it is enviable to hit more than 200.  Every ball a batter hits, counts.  It increases the average by a small fraction of a point.  That translates into about a point and a half for each hit a batter is lucky to connect with.  An average of 250 is even harder to achieve.  Batters would love to have that average and work extremely hard to achieve it.  Not many actually do.

200 is written as .200.  It's a percentage - 20%.  That's not much.  Such an average fails in school.  One would expect a professional who gets paid millions to do much better than hit and become a base runner 20% of the time or even 25% of the time.  Occasionally, amazing players come along and put 250 to shame, hitting 3 out of 10 pitches.  A person in a business who showed up for work everyday but only was productive 30% of the time would go bankrupt or be fired.  An accountant who only made right decisions about numbers 30% of the time would retain no client.

But, context is everything.  3 out of 10 is what I am shooting for right now. I will come by all I've wanted if I but only achieve 300.  I'll outstrip the 200s and 250s by excelling to 300.  30% and I'll be the most satisfied person alive.