{"id":4403,"date":"2012-02-15T21:10:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T13:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2025-03-08T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T09:06:51","slug":"great-posts-ive-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/15\/great-posts-ive-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Posts I&#8217;ve Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education\/\">The Disadvantage of an Elite Education<\/a> by William Dersiewicz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/415\/karl-paulnack-on-music\/\">Welcome address to freshman at Boston Conservatory<\/a>, by Karl Paulnack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/3667\/the-world-as-i-see-it-by-albert-einstein\/\">The World As I See It<\/a>, by Albert Einstein<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/3257\/talent-focus-and-endurance-by-haruki-murakami\/\">Talent, Focus and Endurance<\/a>, by Haruki Murakami<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/3184\/its-not-about-you-by-david-brooks\/\">It&#8217;s not about you<\/a>, by David Brooks. The purpose in life is not to find yourself, but to lose yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/3168\/i-am-nothing-by-paul-buchheit\/\">I am Nothing<\/a>, by Paul Buchhiet<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/3121\/six-mistakes-by-seneca\/\">Six Mistakes Man Makes, Century after Century<\/a>, by Seneca<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/1911\/friedrich-nietzsche-on-laziness-and-timidity\/\">Laziness and Timidity<\/a>, by Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/1720\/countering-stress-and-depression-by-the-dalai-lama-xiv\/\">Countering Stress and Depression<\/a>, by The Dalai Lama XIV<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/776\/john-mayer-on-life\/\">On life<\/a>, by John Mayer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Disadvantage of an Elite Education by William Dersiewicz. Welcome address to freshman at Boston Conservatory, by Karl Paulnack. The World As I See It, by Albert Einstein Talent, Focus and Endurance, by Haruki Murakami It&#8217;s not about you, by David Brooks. The purpose in life is not to find&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-191","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14646,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/14646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}