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Re discomfort
Aug. 22nd, 2025 12:14 amScott D. Clary writes in Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/scottdclarypage/posts/pfbid02Bi3Ey11dfXXdDBP8FrJhFnTnmzKXwmST825v43dWjXvhtFPnbMTkKYgNKGxnLoPEl :
Your problem isn't strategy.
It's that you stop when things get hard.
Everyone has a strategy. Winners have tolerance for discomfort.
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Exactly. I have no tolerance for the discomfort of being abused by the referees and the editors. I have made the choice of responding to that with my refereeing boycott policy. This rules out any possibility of me becoming a winner in the career game.
My tolerance is for the discomfort of working really hard as a researcher. This allows for the possibility that my work will eventually prove to be important in the long run.
Your problem isn't strategy.
It's that you stop when things get hard.
Everyone has a strategy. Winners have tolerance for discomfort.
***
Exactly. I have no tolerance for the discomfort of being abused by the referees and the editors. I have made the choice of responding to that with my refereeing boycott policy. This rules out any possibility of me becoming a winner in the career game.
My tolerance is for the discomfort of working really hard as a researcher. This allows for the possibility that my work will eventually prove to be important in the long run.
