Target Shooting and Choices
In 2014 Matt Emmons was breezing along in the air rifle competition at the Olympics. He was in first place and far ahead of his competitors. Everyone said he was one of the best at hitting the center of a target that they had ever seen. He got to the last marker and knew he had plenty of time. But for some reason he got nervous, maybe the crowd noise or his own thoughts or whatever, so he rushed his shot. But listen to this: he chose to hurry his shot and missed badly, so badly that instead of hitting the target in his lane, he hit the target one lane over. Holy Competition! That meant he got no score on the last round and fell to last place. There was no gold medal. When Wilson kid Mark was competing in persuasive speaking, he had no real worry through contests we went to or district. When we got to regional at South Plains College, I had no doubt that he would get one of the top three places and go to state. He got through prelims easily and spoke in the finals. I wa...