{"id":1927,"date":"2013-02-08T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T00:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2013-02-08T17:25:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T00:25:25","slug":"sources-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/02\/08\/sources-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources of Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/02\/alain_de_botton_proposes_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success_.html'>Alain de Botton Proposes a Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And at the Atlantic Alexis Madrigal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/02\/and-now-let-us-praise-and-consider-the-absurd-luck-of-famous-men\/272917\/\">responds<\/a> to Jack Dorsey on the role of luck (in addition to hard work and genius) in the making of a great success story.<\/p>\n<p>Something similar came to mind when I read Ta-Nehisi Coates (also at the Atlantic) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2013\/02\/writing-a-column-for-the-new-york-times-is-harder-than-you-think\/272968\/\">discussing<\/a> the challenges faced by daily newspaper columnists, and frankly wondering whether he could meet them himself. But my response is that actually no-one can, and the annointing by newspaper editors of a precious few with the gift of that platform is an insult to those who pay for the papers. (Though I have to admit that if people continue to pay for it then it&#8217;s not surprising that that&#8217;s what the papers will continue to dish out.)<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s access to audience via a media pulpit, to political power, or to money, the fact is that there&#8217;s an instability in the sense that once you have a certain amount it becomes easier to get more &#8211; or as the Bible says &#8220;Unto him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away &#8211; even that which he hath&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain de Botton Proposes a Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success. And at the Atlantic Alexis Madrigal responds to Jack Dorsey on the role of luck (in addition to hard work and genius) in the making of a great success story. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/02\/08\/sources-of-success\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}