Why is tiny Norway so good at sports? It's more than Erling Haaland
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#2The traditional conflict between enjoying short-term gratification and reaching long-term goals.
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#3Good read. Makes me want to move to Norway.
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#4They have unfair advantage, they should be banned!
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#5The traditional conflict between enjoying short-term gratification and reaching long-term goals.
In this case it seems like "enjoying the process" might lead to more short and long term gratification.
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#6Good read. Makes me want to move to Norway.
Beware of the weather, though. It may be geniunely soul-crushing for someone used to sunny skies.
As I am growing older, I also feel a tug to move from Central Europe to maybe the Mediterranean, precisely because of the winters. And Norwegian winters are even more dark and rainy.
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#7No, this is just pseudo-science and resembles educational research where they try to find a causation to things that are probably just attributed to genetics. Think about genetics determining the size of your engine and motivation being the amount of energy supplied to it.
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#8Their ski jumpers cheated and had almost flying suits instead of regular ones, their cross-country skiers were all "asthmatic" and used clenbuterol. They are kinda famous for systemic cheating at this point.
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#9The traditional conflict between enjoying short-term gratification and reaching long-term goals.
In this case it seems like "enjoying the process" might lead to more short and long term gratification.
But not short-term gratification for the too-competitive parents of the imagined-potential-elite kids.
(No comparison intended to quarterly-results-obsessed American business exec's:)
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#10Their ski jumpers cheated and had almost flying suits instead of regular ones, their cross-country skiers were all "asthmatic" and used clenbuterol. They are kinda famous for systemic cheating at this point.
> They are kinda famous for systemic cheating at this point.
Is that really a Norway thing or a professional sports thing? Think of all the disqualifications in the Tour de France spanning many nations.