Re:Wayne Gretzky and the Mysteries of Athletic Greatness
by skh on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:31PM
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Didn’t bliblah’s last paragraph address this? Also, so what if it is just entertainment. It’s still fascinating to some people how much of an outlier among outliers these people are.
I did mixed martial arts for 10 years and sparred with someone who eventually went on to be a semi finalist on The Ultimate Fighter. He easily destroyed me and he couldn’t make it in the UFC. How much more of an outlier is Khabib or Mcgregor? I did Ph.D. studies in mathematics at a group 1 reasearch imstituion. Went to a talk by a graduate student from Berkeley in the same area as me and in school for the same length of time as me. It was clear I would never know as much as him or be as good as him. I quit my Ph.D. program shortly afterwards. I knew I wasn’t good enough to do worthwhile research in math. Outliers among outliers.
I did mixed martial arts for 10 years and sparred with someone who eventually went on to be a semi finalist on The Ultimate Fighter. He easily destroyed me and he couldn’t make it in the UFC. How much more of an outlier is Khabib or Mcgregor? I did Ph.D. studies in mathematics at a group 1 reasearch imstituion. Went to a talk by a graduate student from Berkeley in the same area as me and in school for the same length of time as me. It was clear I would never know as much as him or be as good as him. I quit my Ph.D. program shortly afterwards. I knew I wasn’t good enough to do worthwhile research in math. Outliers among outliers.