If there is a streak, a good reason for it might just be because when you start making 1 or two in a row you stop worrying about the mecahnics of making the third. There's a great bit in the book Bounce about the concept of The Yips.<p>> Yips or the yips is the apparent loss of fine motor skills without apparent explanation, in one of a number of different sports<p>It seems to occur when we start worry about our mechanics again and begin over thinking our work, rather than letting our more smoothly acting muscle memory do the task.<p>I always wonder if this isn't also really applicable to startups. Do we over think these rather than practice a set of skills that we can later rely on in almost a muscle memory like way? Do we have yips when trying to run our businesses?