{"id":95020,"date":"2017-07-10T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=95020"},"modified":"2017-07-05T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:13:40","slug":"improve-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/07\/improve-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient times, a king walked barefoot, as it was customary at the time, to visit a neighboring town. But upon hurting his foot on a sharp stone, he ordered that all the roads in his kingdom be covered with leather.<\/p>\n<p>His adviser suggested, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t Your Majesty simply cover your feet with leather?&#8221; This is how shoes are supposed to have been invented.<\/p>\n<h3>We all would like to improve the world and can easily do so if we start with ourselves.<\/h3>\n<p>\u2011\u2011 Karl Heinrich Waggerl<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dietrich-Fischer-e1477398742690.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dietrich-Fischer-e1477398742690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/><\/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>In ancient times, a king walked barefoot, as it was customary at the time, to visit a neighboring town. <\/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-95020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95020","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=95020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}