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]]> By: Chris Airhart http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/11/persistence/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Chris Airhart Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:20:01 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/11/persistence/#comment-342 "One day I'll get what's mine, through the persistence of time." - Anthrax I can recall someone telling me at a baseball camp when I was a lot younger, "practice doesn't make perfect... perfect practice makes perfect." You're right, persistence doesn't always pay off. Neither does giving up, so it's a mixed bag. Throwing in the towel during a boxing match is better than an embarassing knockout, in some cases, but I like the Ali, "rope-a-dope" strategy. I hate to use sports as an analogy on a non-sports topic, but this can apply to just about anything. Ali fought George Foreman towards the end of his career, and had lost some of his speed and agility. Since Ali could no longer rely on his ability to move in the ring, he would, starting in the first round, sit there and take punches. He would take the beating until Foreman ran out of energy. Then, after Foreman was tired, he went in for the kill. “One day I’ll get what’s mine, through the persistence of time.” – Anthrax
I can recall someone telling me at a baseball camp when I was a lot younger, “practice doesn’t make perfect… perfect practice makes perfect.” You’re right, persistence doesn’t always pay off. Neither does giving up, so it’s a mixed bag. Throwing in the towel during a boxing match is better than an embarassing knockout, in some cases, but I like the Ali, “rope-a-dope” strategy. I hate to use sports as an analogy on a non-sports topic, but this can apply to just about anything. Ali fought George Foreman towards the end of his career, and had lost some of his speed and agility. Since Ali could no longer rely on his ability to move in the ring, he would, starting in the first round, sit there and take punches. He would take the beating until Foreman ran out of energy. Then, after Foreman was tired, he went in for the kill.

]]> By: Fel http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/11/persistence/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Fel Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:43:16 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/11/persistence/#comment-341 "Hill studied a bunch of rich people and concluded that the secret to success is persistence. Unfortunately, this is bogus. The problem is selection bias: he only studied the successful. When you want to know the antecedents of success, you must study both successful and unsuccessful people. Otherwise, you just get a bunch of characteristics that all successful people have." Me: Oh, you got PWND, bitch face That's seriously what went through my head when I read that. I have no idea why. “Hill studied a bunch of rich people and concluded that the secret to success is persistence. Unfortunately, this is bogus. The problem is selection bias: he only studied the successful. When you want to know the antecedents of success, you must study both successful and unsuccessful people. Otherwise, you just get a bunch of characteristics that all successful people have.”

Me: Oh, you got PWND, bitch face

That’s seriously what went through my head when I read that. I have no idea why.

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