Robert M. Sapolsky Quote
Words pack power and these definitions are laden with values, often wildly idiosyncratic ones. Here’s an example, namely the ways I think about the word competition: (a) competition—your lab team races the Cambridge group to a discovery (exhilarating but embarrassing to admit to); (b) competition—playing pickup soccer (fine, as long as the best player shifts sides if the score becomes lopsided); (c) competition—your child’s teacher announces a prize for the best outlining-your-fingers Thanksgiving turkey drawing (silly and perhaps a red flag—if it keeps happening, maybe complain to the principal); (d) competition—whose deity is more worth killing for? (try to avoid).
Words pack power and these definitions are laden with values, often wildly idiosyncratic ones. Here’s an example, namely the ways I think about the word competition: (a) competition—your lab team races the Cambridge group to a discovery (exhilarating but embarrassing to admit to); (b) competition—playing pickup soccer (fine, as long as the best player shifts sides if the score becomes lopsided); (c) competition—your child’s teacher announces a prize for the best outlining-your-fingers Thanksgiving turkey drawing (silly and perhaps a red flag—if it keeps happening, maybe complain to the principal); (d) competition—whose deity is more worth killing for? (try to avoid).
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