 This is Shepard Humphries with the Jackson Hole Shooting Experience and Stoker, and I'm here to say to talk about a medical issue, a psychological issue, a mental health issue, that really hurts shooting. And if you suffer from this, chances are you're not going to be as good of a shot as you could be if you're able to overcome this mental illness. And this is more common among men than women. And this mental issue is ego. Sometimes I get this ego thing going on and I want to show off and I want to be a man. Men shoot well, right? Real men, Ron Swanson types, the strong libertarian, charging forward, taking care of business in life, self-sufficient. We're able to shoot guns, right? We hit the target every time, so we get this big ego. And we're thinking we've got a show off in front of our family and we puff up like our Banny Rooster selves and we think we're just going to take care of business. You're not going to tell me how to do this. And we ignore the nice instructions that the little perhaps pansy shooting instructor is giving us and we think, no, we've got this covered. And guess what? That ego is going to make us miss our shots. I've had this happen to me. I've seen it happen hundreds, if not thousands of times. Here and I'll just talk about my experience with it. I remember one class that I was showing this drill and we were done doing one of Viking Tactical's awesome drills. They come up with the greatest carbine drills. So I was watching this drill and I thought we're going to incorporate this in the class next week. So I brought it into class and the students are going through and they're just shooting bam, bam, bam. I hadn't shot for months. It was toward the end of summer. I'd been teaching, teaching, teaching, hardly shooting at all. Goes back to that. What was the movie? Those that can do, those that can't teach. That was me. So I didn't have any skills, but I still wanted to be tough guy. So after all the students had gone through, I don't even remember which drill it was. It might have been the one where you do, you know, three to the center on the first target that's in the middle, one head, one pelvis, and then go to the target on the left, three to the chest, one head, one pelvis, go to the target on the right, three chest, one head, one pelvis. And everybody was doing it in, you know, kind of a similar area, 10 to 15 seconds, something like that. The students were doing it and I was going to show them how it was done. And I popped up there and I looked so tough. I was Mr. Tactical and I looked and I missed a bunch of the shots. I felt like a moron. And you know what it was? It was my ego. I shouldn't have let my ego get in the way. If I had just been calm and said, I don't need to hurry with this, if I take twice as long as the students and I have little groups like this, that'll work. That's still an ego thing though, even as I say it now, isn't it? If I just didn't care, I just had fun and took my time and hit as best I could, I would have done a lot better. So what I'm saying is, I've experienced this, maybe you have, let the ego go. Nobody cares if you're a good shot or not. Nobody cares if you're handling safely, you're keeping your finger off the trigger, you're keeping the gun in a safe direction, you're following basic safety rules. That's what matters. Don't worry about being Mr. Tough Guy, like I sometimes try to do. And then I follow my face. So let's chill out and just have fun and not worry about the ego thing. So I hope my counsel as a mental health professional is of some assistance and helps you realize, hey, we're all just people, chill out, we miss, we hit, who cares? Let's just have fun on the range.