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Chasing numbers versus breaking barriers

Peter commented on my last post: “What about the fact that some (many? most?) climbers are in this game for the sheer fun of it? It seems to me (from my bumbly-level vantage point) that chasing numbers is 99% drudgery, so many climbers naturally plateau at the point of maximum fun for least effort (however you define those two dimensions). Tangentially, a few climbers I've known who've played the numbers game inevitably reach a performance plateau no matter how hard they work, and in a couple of cases