{"id":5852,"date":"2013-06-25T20:29:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T03:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5852"},"modified":"2013-06-25T20:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T03:29:36","slug":"if-you-take-risks-and-face-your-fate-with-dignity-there-is-nothing-you-can-do-that-makes-you-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/if-you-take-risks-and-face-your-fate-with-dignity-there-is-nothing-you-can-do-that-makes-you-small\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don&#8217;t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FINALLY a journalist who gets it:<\/p>\n<p><em>Nassim Taleb: &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217; author in praise of the risk-takers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a dream. It&#8217;s this: he wants us to celebrate the restaurant owners, the taxi drivers, the market traders and carpenters and all the other risk-takers who put their skin in the game and who drive the economy for<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151554577178375&amp;id=13012333374\">&#8220;If you take risks and face your fate&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don&#8217;t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.&#8221; FINALLY a journalist who gets it: Nassim Taleb: &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217; author in praise of the risk-takers Nassim Nicholas [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852","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=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5853,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions\/5853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}