{"id":4197,"date":"2010-03-09T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2018-09-25T04:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:26:03","slug":"wisdom-is-where-you-find-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wisdom-is-where-you-find-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom&#8230; is where you find it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4198\" title=\"Marx\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marx.jpg\" alt=\"Marx\" width=\"437\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4199\" title=\"Chinese_Proverb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chinese_Proverb.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese_Proverb\" width=\"437\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4200\" title=\"King_Solomon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/King_Solomon.jpg\" alt=\"King_Solomon\" width=\"437\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4201\" title=\"McLuhan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/McLuhan.jpg\" alt=\"McLuhan\" width=\"437\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People sometimes ask me two things: 1) Why the first thing you come to when you visit the Circle website is a quote by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Marx\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Marx<\/a>? and, 2) Whether this doesn\u2019t turn away business in droves?<\/p>\n<p>I answer the first question with something like\u2026 Well, I think Marx was a brilliant man, and I find his correlation of \u201ccause and effect\u201d to express this crucial point more eloquently than most, and certainly more succinctly than I could. I answer the second question with\u2026 Well, if the fact that we quote Marx on our website is a potential deal-breaker, we choose to view this as an acid test (and a suitable barrier to entry, per se), and we\u2019re likely better off never even hearing from such folks.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to believe we can learn from almost anyone and anything\u2014as long as we keep our minds open and exercise discernment\u2014which is why we also quote sources ranging from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walt_Disney\" target=\"_blank\">Walt Disney<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winston_Churchill\" target=\"_blank\">Winston Churchill<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bible\" target=\"_blank\">the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wisdom is where you find it, no?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada People sometimes ask me two things: 1) Why the first thing you come to when you visit the Circle website is a quote by Karl Marx? and, 2) Whether this doesn\u2019t turn away business in droves? I answer the first question with something like\u2026 Well, I think Marx was a brilliant man, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,11,13,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16043,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/16043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}