{"id":3779,"date":"2019-05-16T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/the-best-reason-to-try-to-make-it\/"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:49:23","slug":"the-best-reason-to-try-to-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/the-best-reason-to-try-to-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason to Try to &#8216;Make it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">One&#0160; reason to try to &#39;make it&#39; is to come to appreciate, by succeeding, that worldly success is not a worthy final goal of human striving. &#39;Making it&#39; frees one psychologically and allows one to turn one&#39;s attention to worthier matters.&#0160; He who fails is dogged by a sense of failure whereas he who succeeds is in a position to appreciate the ultimate insignificance of both worldly success and worldly failure, not that most of the successful ever do.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Their success traps them.&#0160; Hence the sad spectacle of the old coot, a good flight of stairs from a major coronary event, scheming and angling for more loot and land when in the end a man needs only &#8212; six feet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One&#0160; reason to try to &#39;make it&#39; is to come to appreciate, by succeeding, that worldly success is not a worthy final goal of human striving. &#39;Making it&#39; frees one psychologically and allows one to turn one&#39;s attention to worthier matters.&#0160; He who fails is dogged by a sense of failure whereas he who succeeds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/the-best-reason-to-try-to-make-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Reason to Try to &#8216;Make it&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}