{"id":4784,"date":"2012-09-19T10:58:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2012-09-19T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:58:15","slug":"my-nightmare-when-i-started-my-adult-life-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/my-nightmare-when-i-started-my-adult-life-was\/","title":{"rendered":"My nightmare when I started my adult life was&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>My nightmare when I started my adult life was the image of a committee of middle-aged and older men sitting around a conference table and quietly &#8220;deliberating&#8221;, in a composed way, then &#8220;judging&#8221; a junior person whose fate depends on them. The &#8220;judgment&#8221; could have been anything, ranging from a job assessment or promotion, a bonus, a disciplinary action, the granting of a doctorate, the hiring of a candidate, the publication of a book.The person is nervously waiting outside the room, waiting to be called in. Or, worse, he is at home checking the phone.. I could imagine no worse condition than this FRAGILITY, the helplessness of the person being judged by people one was certain to be faux-experts, or depending on a lottery, or facing an outcome that made a huge difference, good or bad without one&#8217;s ability to control it. And rank makes things worse: I vividly remember my grandfather, then minister, waiting by the phone for the formation of the new cabinet; he wanted the position very badly, was completely dependent on it, kept discussing the odds the outcome was that he lost his position in the reshuffle&#8230; I also remember the vice chairman of an investment firm nervously pacing while expecting a phone call&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151097544328375&amp;id=13012333374\">My nightmare when I&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My nightmare when I started my adult life was the image of a committee of middle-aged and older men sitting around a conference table and quietly &#8220;deliberating&#8221;, in a composed way, then &#8220;judging&#8221; a junior person whose fate depends on them. The &#8220;judgment&#8221; could have been anything, ranging from a job assessment or promotion, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4786,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}