Are You the Flippers or the Pinball?
I was just listening to one of my favorite podcasts, How I Built This with Guy Raz, and heard the greatest analogy from Missy Park of Title Nine – a women’s sports apparel business. (It requires you to have played pinball on one of those huge pinball machines from the 80s to fully get the analogy): “I thought I was the pinball game flippers (totally in control, and keeping the ball in play) and it turns out I am the ball.” Has anyone had a similar thought? The more I think a

