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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
THIS!
Lots of people have ruined a great hobby they enjoyed by trying to do it for a living. Photography is a classic example. In the long year I worked at a professional photolab I explained to many new employees the "we do for a living want thousands of people stuck in rush hour traffic are trying to get home to go play in their home darkroom" and often they replied, we need them in here to help us!
Natural ability it the primary thing for any pro. And the honest desire to be the best they can be at the task. And it does take a lot of practice, at any skilled profession like pool or golf where it is just you against the ball and the little hole you want it to go into.
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You touched on it here...the difference between individual sports like golf, pool, and bowling, and team sports like baseball, football, basketball. Probably takes a different personality for each. Then, of course, genetics are kinder to some than others.
It's heartbreaking to see the talents of the best in pool degrade as they age. Some simply go off the rails mentally...others, like Efren Reyes, accept gracefully and return to playing for fun.
Touche' on ruining a fun hobby by getting too serious about it. If pool ever stops being fun for me, I'll look for something else to do.