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).
Robert M. Sapolsky
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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