{"id":6645,"date":"2014-03-02T22:17:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T06:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2014-03-02T22:17:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T06:17:32","slug":"the-four-bs-brain-balls-brawn-and-business-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-four-bs-brain-balls-brawn-and-business-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Bs: Brain, Balls, Brawn, and Business Sense."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The Four Bs: Brain, Balls, Brawn, and Business Sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>You can have 4 out of 4 (Thales), 3 out of 4 (Plato, who had poor practical sense), 2 out of 4 (most great scientists and great businesspersons), 1 out of 4 (the typical &#8220;incremental&#8221; modern academics, or people you tend to find in jail), or 0 out of 4 (journalists).<\/p>\n<p>(Exception for journalists who take personal risks, of course. Also the &#8220;balls&#8221; tends to be present in women at least as often as in men).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152061668953375&amp;id=13012333374\">The Four Bs: Brain, Balls, Brawn, and Business&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Four Bs: Brain, Balls, Brawn, and Business Sense. &#8212; You can have 4 out of 4 (Thales), 3 out of 4 (Plato, who had poor practical sense), 2 out of 4 (most great scientists and great businesspersons), 1 out of 4 (the typical &#8220;incremental&#8221; modern academics, or people you tend to find in jail), [&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-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","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=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}