How does the mountain climbing analogy explain reaching practice goals? Every goal has a setup, and the size of the setup matches the size of the mountain. Kilimanjaro is almost the amateur's mountain. Get yourself to east central Africa, be in reasonable shape, hire guides at the base, and roughly 25,000 people summit it every year. Everest is a different setup entirely. More training, different equipment, a higher grade of sherpa, and only around a hundred people make it each year, with someone usually dying on the way. Then there is Fitz Roy in Patagonia, where maybe one person a year [...]