Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Step on their Throat

When you compete you gotta be out for blood. –Team Zannetti Principle

When you’re winning you gotta step on their throat. –Jim Clarke (sales and investing guru and personality)

No Mercy. –John Kreese (Cobra Kai Sensei)

The point illustrated-
Watch as my UPenn professor kicks the crap out of a racist author:

“It is certainly embarrassing to be wrong. It is doubly embarrassing when your own facts prove you wrong. But isn’t it triply embarrassing when, rather than confess the mistake, one is incoherently pushing the disconfirming facts in support of the theory? And isn’t it quadruply embarrassing when the argument that shows the theory to be wrong is included—and with some insistence!—in the book that defends the theory? Finally, not to be uncharitable but the question must be asked: isn’t it quintuply embarrassing when all of this should be transparently obvious?”*

*taken from the theories of Gil-White (Dr. Francisco Gil-White)

This is the intellectual equivalent of how you handle your opponent on the field of play. There's a place for mercy, compassion, and empathy, but it's not in competition. If you are going to look back and regret a loss or a close score, you must kick them while they are down. You gotta be OUT FOR BLOOD!

IOWA WRESTLING ATTITUDE