{"id":2765,"date":"2010-12-26T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/d4af501b02c7402c"},"modified":"2010-12-26T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T00:15:53","slug":"you-will-get-the-most-attention-from-those-who-hate-you-taleb-hindustan-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/you-will-get-the-most-attention-from-those-who-hate-you-taleb-hindustan-times\/","title":{"rendered":"You will get the most attention from those who hate you: Taleb &#8211; Hindustan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last aphorism is one of Nassim Nicholas Taleb&#8217;s favourite, or rather the one &#8220;he likes more than others&#8221;.<br \/>\nTaleb, a Lebanese &#8220;technical philosopher&#8221;, likes turning things on their head and, he confesses, that he is not too popular for it (especially with economists). The 50-year-old author of<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                 the bestsellers, <em>Black Swan<\/em> and <em>Fooled by Randomness<\/em>, was in Mumbai on Friday with his latest offering, <em>The Bed of Procrustes<\/em>, a book of aphorisms. <\/p>\n<p>While religion and ethics might promote the idea of good and imbibe fear of retribution, for Taleb the idea is that one does good because they are good. &#8220;This is pre-Christian thought. It is part of your nature to do something regardless of the pay off. This is unconditional but these values are lost today,&#8221; said the former Wall Street trader, risk expert and practitioner of mathematical finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last aphorism is one of Nassim Nicholas Taleb&#8217;s favourite, or rather the one &#8220;he likes more than others&#8221;.<br \/>\nTaleb, a Lebanese &#8220;technical philosopher&#8221;, likes turning things on their head and, he confesses, that he is not too popular for it (especiall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}