Alan is amazing. I love to pitch horseshoes, and I pitch every week. The mental strength to pitch 90% is beyond what most of us will ever even realize can exist.
My all time favorite is Ted Allen, who holds the world’s consecutive ringer record (in a sanctioned tournament). And he did it two different times... pitching 72 ringers in a row. :)
My percentage? About 30% officially. My consecutive ringer best? 7 in a row, which I’ve done 4-5 times. I have a mental block about that 8th ringer.
Ya gotta be good at something. This man’s passion is horse shoes.
I love it.
How long does it take to become an expert in any given area of human endeavor? Well, recently there was a book by Gladwell called the “Outliers” and in this book he put forth some conventional wisdom; namely that takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in anything. If this is true then that means you can become an expert bicyclist, yoga instructor, small business coach, teleprompting reading politician, pilot, or even perhaps a mathematician by merely putting in the time to learn that endeavor.