{"id":147742,"date":"2015-06-30T09:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/30\/idiopathicsmile-themyskira-dd-didio-i\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:04:32","slug":"idiopathicsmile-themyskira-dd-didio-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/30\/idiopathicsmile-themyskira-dd-didio-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-147742 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/30\/idiopathicsmile-themyskira-dd-didio-i\/attachment\/147743\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_n91w4bMFP71rs0y1io1_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_n91w4bMFP71rs0y1io1_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_n91w4bMFP71rs0y1io1_500-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/30\/idiopathicsmile-themyskira-dd-didio-i\/attachment\/147744\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_n91w4bMFP71rs0y1io2_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_n91w4bMFP71rs0y1io2_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_n91w4bMFP71rs0y1io2_500-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idiopathicsmile.tumblr.com\/post\/92787538643\/themyskira-dd-didio-i-know-this-has-become\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">idiopathicsmile<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themyskira.tumblr.com\/post\/92412442337\/dd-didio\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">themyskira<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>DD &gt; Didio<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I KNOW THIS HAS BECOME A MIHALY CKIKSZENTMIHALY BLOG LATELY BUT THIS IS JUST ON MY MIND A LOT RIGHT NOW:<\/p>\n<p>So! This book I\u2019m reading. Ckikszentmihaly is a Hungarian psychologist who wanted to study like greatness so he assembled as many examples as he possibly could of people operating at seemingly the the peak of human ability (writers, scientists, leaders, artists: people who had contributed significantly to \u2018the canon\u2019 but were still alive to interview, i think it was 91 people total? sidenote he tried for gender parity as much as possible which speaking as someone who\u2019s had to read a lot of these studies lately is PRETTY REFRESHING) and what he found, over and over and <i>over again<\/i> was that, in contradiction to the whole \u2018troubled loner genius\u2019 stereotype, <i>the vast majority <\/i>of people out there changing the world have a super strong support structure and this is not an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Close-knit families and long happy marriages were the norm (30% of respondents, and that\u2019s including a lot of men, still listed their family as the thing they were proudest of, ahead of like Nobel Prizes). Their spouses took up some of the day-to-day tasks to free up more time, their kids gave them a reason to keep going, their peers inspired them, etc. Also, there was plenty of \u2018found family\u2019 stuff going on (A LOTTTT of them were serving as mentors of some kind.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>tl;dr in addition to ~the tragedy of the solitary exceptional man~ being shitty storytelling it is also profoundly inaccurate, it is hard to be a hero in a vacuum okay, as someone once said,\u00a0to save the world you need to live in it<\/p>\n<p>you need DARE I SAY a team<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>idiopathicsmile: themyskira: DD &gt; Didio I KNOW THIS HAS BECOME A MIHALY CKIKSZENTMIHALY BLOG LATELY BUT THIS IS JUST ON MY MIND A LOT RIGHT NOW: So! This book I\u2019m reading. Ckikszentmihaly is a Hungarian psychologist who wanted to study like greatness so he assembled as many examples as he possibly could of people operating &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/30\/idiopathicsmile-themyskira-dd-didio-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10863,338,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147745,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147742\/revisions\/147745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}