WotD: Sweet spot

If you want to be a good hitter in baseball, you need to be able to find the sweet spot on your bat almost every time you swing.

The same goes for cricket, tennis and ping pong players too.

The sweet spot in this context is the best part of the bat or racket that’ll give you the most power for the least amount of effort.

Sure, you have to hit the ball hard, but you also want to hit the ball efficiently, and that means using the least amount of power to get the most amount of effect.

This is not the only meaning of sweet spot, though.

Businesses are constantly searching for the sweet spot, too, but differently.

When advertising, for example, a company wants to maximize every yen it spends.

That means they have to find the sweet spot that will give them the maximum exposure for the least amount of advertising investment.

To put it in a nutshell, they want to get the most bang for their buck.

They do this by experimenting to find the perfect combination of colours, time of day, demographics, geolocation etc.

Language students, too, are searching for the sweet spot.

They want to find the best way for them to learn English.

For each person, it will be different, but there will be a magical combination of time spent and cost.

Of course, learning is a very intangible result.

People learn at various speeds and in varying ways.

What proves effective for one may be less useful for another.

That’s why each learner searches for their sweet spot during their quest for knowledge.

How about you?

Have you found your sweet spot yet?

Have you discovered the most effective way for you to learn English?

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