{"id":57143,"date":"2015-05-18T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=57143"},"modified":"2015-05-17T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:25:53","slug":"honesty-and-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/05\/honesty-and-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"Honesty and Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54505\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dietrich-Fischer.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54505\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dietrich-Fischer.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Dietrich Fischer\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Dietrich Fischer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An Indian Guru realized that he was getting old and could not teach much longer. So he told his students,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to stop teaching soon, and to be able to continue to support myself, I need some savings. Please go to any busy intersection, and when nobody is looking, snatch a purse and bring it to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His students were puzzled, but they did not dare to question their guru. All went out to try to snatch purses, except one. The guru asked him, &#8220;Why are you not doing what I told you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The boy explained, &#8220;You said we should snatch a purse when nobody is looking. But that is impossible, because I will always be looking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guru told him, &#8220;You are the only one who understood. I want you to become my successor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Dietrich Fischer, born in 1941 in M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" >Stories to Inspire You<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" > &#8211; TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Guru realized that he was getting old and could not teach much longer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}