Comments on: The Lies They Tell Us http://ionfish.co.uk/2005/08/the-lies-they-tell-us/ Stating the obvious since 1982 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:31:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: booly http://ionfish.co.uk/2005/08/the-lies-they-tell-us/#comment-81 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:43:54 +0000 http://ionfish.co.uk/2005/08/the-lies-they-tell-us/#comment-81 ...Not get sucked in by shiney fibs nor embittered by our own desire (if it is frustrated) either, eg tightrope walking. Its interesting to me persoanlly as this (uni 2nd-3rd year) was the time I got CFIDS and that on top of the difficulty of philosphical progress (zoologists are philosophers btw!) was a bit too much to cope with. I hope you are spared such a trial :) People say its harder to encourage people to raise their game. Maybe its a 'white-lie', the kind a parent tells a child to bring about a result, benevolent manipulation (is there such a thing ?) If you see through it then all is well, Santa is still a force for good, isnt he ? At uni and apparently postgrad motivation is increasingly self generated. I think that is hard, as with socks. The idea of competition works as a motivator which helps some people forge through difficulty with vigour. Its a duality, a phantasm, imaginary. And yet the results of competition, victory and defeat, obtaining of objectives or otherwise, are very real phenomena. 1/2p worth …Not get sucked in by shiney fibs nor embittered by our own desire (if it is frustrated) either, eg tightrope walking.

Its interesting to me persoanlly as this (uni 2nd-3rd year) was the time I got CFIDS and that on top of the difficulty of philosphical progress (zoologists are philosophers btw!) was a bit too much to cope with. I hope you are spared such a trial :)

People say its harder to encourage people to raise their game. Maybe its a ‘white-lie’, the kind a parent tells a child to bring about a result, benevolent manipulation (is there such a thing ?) If you see through it then all is well, Santa is still a force for good, isnt he ?

At uni and apparently postgrad motivation is increasingly self generated. I think that is hard, as with socks.

The idea of competition works as a motivator which helps some people forge through difficulty with vigour. Its a duality, a phantasm, imaginary. And yet the results of competition, victory and defeat, obtaining of objectives or otherwise, are very real phenomena.

1/2p worth

]]> by: Moe http://ionfish.co.uk/2005/08/the-lies-they-tell-us/#comment-80 Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:38:38 +0000 http://ionfish.co.uk/2005/08/the-lies-they-tell-us/#comment-80 Yes, but the difference is that you can get away with it in school, whereas if you don't study now, you're basically screwed. Yes, but the difference is that you can get away with it in school, whereas if you don’t study now, you’re basically screwed.

]]> by: ionfish http://ionfish.co.uk/2005/08/the-lies-they-tell-us/#comment-78 Sat, 06 Aug 2005 16:56:48 +0000 http://ionfish.co.uk/2005/08/the-lies-they-tell-us/#comment-78 That's part of it, too, but I recall having a lot of work in school; it's just that I didn't actually _do it_ that often. That’s part of it, too, but I recall having a lot of work in school; it’s just that I didn’t actually do it that often.

]]> by: SquidDNA http://ionfish.co.uk/2005/08/the-lies-they-tell-us/#comment-77 Sat, 06 Aug 2005 16:48:31 +0000 http://ionfish.co.uk/2005/08/the-lies-they-tell-us/#comment-77 Funny, I always assumed it was the higher workload. Funny, I always assumed it was the higher workload.

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