{"id":90338,"date":"2017-04-17T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=90338"},"modified":"2017-04-10T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T10:11:12","slug":"steven-spielberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/steven-spielberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/video-camera.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-90340 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/video-camera-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/video-camera-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/video-camera.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>When Steven Spielberg (born 1946), the award-winning movie director, was a young boy, he was plagued at school by a big bully who regularly ridiculed him, hit him, or put his head under the water fountain.<\/p>\n<p>One day, Steven&#8217;s mother gave him a movie camera for his birthday. He decided to make a movie in which he needed someone to play the role of a big bully. He asked the boy who had repeatedly harassed him if he would play the role of a bully in his movie. He accepted with delight, and played the role very well.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, that boy became Steven&#8217;s friend, and protected him against other big boys if they tried to hurt him (Arthur Kanegis).<\/p>\n<p>A proverb says, &#8220;The only way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dieter-Dietrich-Fischer.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dieter-Dietrich-Fischer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from 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. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> <em>in 1993<\/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>When Steven Spielberg (born 1946), the award-winning movie director, was a young boy, he was plagued at school by a big bully who regularly ridiculed him, hit him, or put his head under the water fountain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90338","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=90338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}