A very deep thought indeed, sports, Steemit and all games are about believing you can do the impossible. It's close to a childish illusion of omnipotence which is insane in adults, but not the same thing if done correctly.

The thing about probability is that it exists within every instance.

To take a slightly simpler example, if one has a 1% chance of making any given shot then it would be 'fair' to presume that one should hit once in every one hundred shots.

However this is not necessarily so - and there is no reason why the first shot couldn't be the lucky shot. Likewise, since every shot taken has a 99% chance of being a miss - it is not unfathomable that a couple of hundred shots are taken without a single hit.

And of course there is the little truth about being guaranteed to miss all the shots that one chooses 'not' to take. ;c)

Within the context of insanity - the closest that I can think of is that situation where one tries something over and over without understanding of the underlying probabilities, expecting a different outcome.

Thanks for sharing. :c)

Thomas Edison failed so many times in producing the light bulb that many people in his place would have given up.