The Mundanity of Excellence
2012-07-30 22:43:14.021566+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Fascinating: The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers:
Stratification in the sport is discrete,not continuous. There are significant, qualitative breaks — discontinuities — between levels of the sport.
It's not how much you do it, it's what you do. via MeFi.