This Turkish man became an internet sensation. Doesn’t carry the usual shooting gear, cool T-shirt, 51, and one hand in his pocket — won a silver medal for his country. It reminds me of Nassim Taleb’s quote :

“Say you had the choice between two surgeons of similar rank in the same department in some hospital. The first is highly refined in appearance…The second one looks like a butcher…Now if I had to pick, I would overcome my suckerproneness and take the butcher any minute…Why? Simply the one who doesn’t look the part, conditional of having made a (sort of) successful career in his profession, had to have much to overcome in terms of perception.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

How true. How often do we dismiss people because they don’t look the part?