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a space for finished and unfinished thoughts, stream of consciousness, questions, etc.
click on any of the underlined headings below to explore the studies
why do we climb? *an ongoing investigation
readings:
G. Breivik, “Sport as part of a meaningful life”
2. S. Loland, “A well balanced life based on the joy of effort: Olympic hype or a meaningful ideal?”
3. R. Duits, “Mountaineering, Myth and the Meaning of Life: psychoanalysing alpinism”
why do we keep going even when the evidence points to failure?
readings:
J. Morton and S. Paul, “Grit”
B. Marusic, “No grit without freedom”
M. Biss, “On trying too hard”
M. Brady, “Suffering in sport: why people wilingly embrace negative emotional expeiences”
what does it mean to attempt the impossible?
readings:
P. Faulkner, “Really Trying or Merely Trying”
J.S. Russel, “Striving, entropy, and meaning”
F. Adams, “Trying”
J. Hornsby, “Trying to act”
is it possible to rationally choose to do things that you should be quite confident will be difficult to do?
readings:
J. McClure, “When People Explain Difficult Actions, is the Causal Question How or Why?”
N. Southwood & D. Wiens, “Devoting ourselves to the manifestly unobtainable”
B. Marusic, “Belief and difficult action”
why do we choose to do what we do?
readings:
E. Locke, “Goal Setting and Task Performance”
E. Locke, “The Application of Goal Setting to Sports”
O. Balaban, “Praxis and Poesis in Aristotle’s practical philosophy”
