{"id":122,"date":"2018-05-06T10:35:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/?p=122"},"modified":"2018-05-06T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:35:52","slug":"random-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/2018\/05\/06\/random-stuck\/","title":{"rendered":"(Random) Stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve done it. It&#8217;s actually on paper (well, in Excel and R). I&#8217;ve formulated my version of a &#8220;Podium Pathway&#8221;. Like&#8230; you can actually see the pathway to transition between levels, based on tournament results. I&#8217;ve divided it into different tracks and aligned it with the Canadian Sport Intitute &#8211; Pacific&#8217;s targeted athlete list levels (Provincial Development 1 &amp; 2, Canadian Development). I&#8217;ve readjusted ranking points so that players can be ranked accordingly, even if they challenge up an age group. It&#8217;s more or less complete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but&#8230; I don&#8217;t know who to go to for feedback. And that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m stuck.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to analyze my fear of sharing, because it feels as if I&#8217;m worried that someone will just steal my work. It&#8217;s like I need to add such a layer of complexity to it so that it would be difficult to steal, without the technical knowledge of how it operates (why I started learning R programming). Not that my programming level is very good, but I think I also fear that people will not understand it. I fear that they will steal my work AND misinterpret it. And then, that&#8217;s where the damage is done.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe suffer more in imagination than in reality.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Seneca<\/p>\n<p>Fear is a funny thing, because writing about this helps clarify my thoughts a bit more. Perhaps I fear that this is my expertise, and once everyone starts to understand this, it no longer becomes expert knowledge. If it is no longer expert knowledge, then I won&#8217;t be an expert anymore. That sounds kind of silly, even to me. Perhaps &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impostor_syndrome\">imposter syndrome<\/a>&#8221; is getting to me. The cure to that is to always continue learning. Perhaps that is the key to this whole process.<\/p>\n<p>I often like to turn tough decisions into a binary question. Zero or one. Yes or no. Do I want to get to a final solution through collaboration, or do I want to be cautious in how I proceed for the sake of not getting my work stolen?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d much rather get to that final solution.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the way I see it, I&#8217;m sure someone might be also on the same track. I&#8217;d rather move forwards than stay in a limbo of no improvement (like my badminton currently&#8230; ouch).<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ve unstuck myself. Life is too short to worry about credit that might not come anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Wait&#8230; but if I can validate this as my thesis somehow&#8230; hmmm&#8230; definitely something to think about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve done it. It&#8217;s actually on paper (well, in Excel and R). I&#8217;ve formulated my version of a &#8220;Podium Pathway&#8221;. Like&#8230; you can actually see the pathway to transition between levels, based on tournament results. I&#8217;ve divided it into different tracks and aligned it with the Canadian Sport Intitute &#8211; Pacific&#8217;s targeted athlete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[771738],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unsorted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/towbsss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}