I saw a great headline last week:

A quarter of Britons think they could qualify for the 2028 Olympics

Asked by a polling company if they began training today, which sports they’d definitely/probably qualify for, 27% picked at least one sport. The favourite was 10m air rifle shooting and almost 1 in 5 men thought they could qualify.

Looking a bit deeper into it, I found the size of the ‘9’ on the target in this sport is 5.5mm, about 3/16th of an inch. The ’10’ is 0.5mm. That’s 1/64th of an inch.

What I find interesting is how people have accepted could hit the target enough times from a standing position, over a distance of 10 metres (almost 33 feet), to qualify.

If you work in L&D and a manager comes to you with a similar aspiration, how would you approach it?