Tuesday, February 27, 2007

how do you deal with Aleksey Vayners?

Professor said in class today, what's important for success is not how much you devote to understanding the world, but the willingness to do whatever is necessary to be succeed. and whatever is necessary means Whatever Is Necessary. Recently I am going through some application processes when all of a sudden it reminds of of mr. aleksey vayner the great. I was a little bit jumpy and frightened after looking back to my silly naive application essays. I wrote the truth but the truth is not as attractive as lying (or lying legally). Who is going to investigate the autheticity of each applicants anyway. The case of Aleksey Vayner has leaked out by some rare mistake. Then how many more Alekseys are there undiscovered, and how many of them are competing with me in the same application process? terrifying.

In psychology there are two types of motivations: external, meaning you'd rather get an easy A than get to understand the course material; internal, the other way around. I'm pretty much an internal type. But isn't that the internal motivation is the ultimate external motivation?

A little bit confused but still insisting of doing it my way.