{"id":5837,"date":"2013-06-17T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2013-06-17T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T16:02:50","slug":"you-dont-eat-to-be-the-best-taster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/you-dont-eat-to-be-the-best-taster\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t eat to be &#8220;the best&#8221; taster&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t eat to be &#8220;the best&#8221; taster the world, don&#8217;t take a stroll to be &#8220;the best&#8221; stroller in the world, don&#8217;t push buttons in an elevator to be the best button pusher in the world.<\/p>\n<p>So if you use this marker to select your activities, you should feel liberated, extremely liberated: don&#8217;t write to be the best novelist in the world, don&#8217;t do math to be the best symplectic geometry, don&#8217;t earn to be the richest&#8230; ideally everything one does would escape this notion of rank, separated from sense of duty, of natural impulse.<\/p>\n<p>And the bonus is that when you will listen to those who talk about others in terms of rank, hierarchy of achievement, performance, league tables (&#8220;he is in the top 11 in bariatric surgery&#8221;), or, worst, precedence of discovery (&#8220;he invented the lateral stroller equation&#8221;), etc., these people will sound like lower forms of life.<\/p>\n<p>For both those who aim for rank and those who talk about it are lower form of life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151539122053375&amp;id=13012333374\">You don&#8217;t eat to be &#8220;the best&#8221; taster&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t eat to be &#8220;the best&#8221; taster the world, don&#8217;t take a stroll to be &#8220;the best&#8221; stroller in the world, don&#8217;t push buttons in an elevator to be the best button pusher in the world. So if you use this marker to select your activities, you should feel liberated, extremely liberated: don&#8217;t write [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","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=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5838,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}