{"id":5520,"date":"2013-02-06T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:07:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:07:31","slug":"how-to-maximize-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/how-to-maximize-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO MAXIMIZE PRIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOW TO MAXIMIZE PRIDE &#8212; Modern thought and social science are grounded in the objective of maximizing &#8220;happiness&#8221;, &#8220;utility&#8221;, &#8220;utility of wealth&#8221;, &#8220;pleasure&#8221;, &#8220;experiences instead of possessions&#8221; or similar matters that are both selfish and over which you have little control. They turned out to be both mathematically and morally clumsy. Switch your objective to maximize &#8220;pride&#8221; and see how different &#8211;and more controllable &#8212; things become.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151324368148375&amp;id=13012333374\">HOW TO MAXIMIZE&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW TO MAXIMIZE PRIDE &#8212; Modern thought and social science are grounded in the objective of maximizing &#8220;happiness&#8221;, &#8220;utility&#8221;, &#8220;utility of wealth&#8221;, &#8220;pleasure&#8221;, &#8220;experiences instead of possessions&#8221; or similar matters that are both selfish and over which you have little control. They turned out to be both mathematically and morally clumsy. Switch your objective to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[678],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","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=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}