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When I was a kid, my baseball coach pulled me aside and said, “You’re a great defensive player. I need you to be a defensive leader on this team.” Honestly, I had never thought much about my defense, good or bad. I showed up, played where they put me, and did my best not to screw things up. But that sentence gave me a new title: defensive specialist. My mindset changed overnight. No ball was getting past me. That became my new attitude. My coach probably did not say it to man