From 90705edcfcf10d2f2f4ea10be5b96ad2cefc73d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Sutton Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:05:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] fix typo. --- _posts/2018-03-03-tournament-axe.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_posts/2018-03-03-tournament-axe.md b/_posts/2018-03-03-tournament-axe.md index fcf352d7d697a..b7bd28aaba17c 100644 --- a/_posts/2018-03-03-tournament-axe.md +++ b/_posts/2018-03-03-tournament-axe.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ and admire the strength and self-knowledge that is needed to do this. * The Tournament is not the core of research. I've been describing the research community as a competitive, perhaps even unfriendly, place. And it is competitive. But I've not found it to be unfriendly. I've met so many colleagues who have helped me by collaborating with me, explaining their work, graciously helping me to understand the field better. This creates the cognitive dissonance, how can the community be both competitive and helpful at the same time? I reconcile these views by *viewing competition as a type of collaboration*. We have, together, decided to build a competition for attention, in the hope that it will help all of us to reach our full potential and teach each other as much as we can. So it is not the competition that is central to research, but learning. -* To paraphrase the philosopher [Marsellus Wallace](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes/qt0447139), jealously only hurts. It never helps. You meet someone smarter than you, someone who has accomplished more than you +* To paraphrase the philosopher [Marsellus Wallace](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes/qt0447139), jealousy only hurts. It never helps. You meet someone smarter than you, someone who has accomplished more than you despite being ten years younger, it's all right to be impressed or amazed, but not jealous. You need to train yourself to think instead: hey, what a great person to learn from!