{"id":12053,"date":"2014-07-28T23:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=12053"},"modified":"2014-07-28T23:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T03:00:55","slug":"monday-night-cant-get-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/07\/28\/monday-night-cant-get-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night – “Can’t get no….”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a busy day I had a really nice visit with my buddy Jared. As always the conversation was wide ranging and satisfying.. but when we came to that exact point of ‘satisfaction’.. Jared shared a quote he’d just heard from the outgoing\u00a0 President of Israel Shimon Perez.<\/div>\n
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Perez was addressing a pro Israeli lobby group\u00a0 recently (don’t’ get me started on that) and was asked why Israel had been so successful in technical innovation.<\/div>\n
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“The Jewish DNA doesn’t permit a Jew to be satisfied. To be satisfied is so unJewish, my God. And then if you’re not satisfied, you’re creative. You’re all the time looking how to improve things. And I don’t know a real Jewish person who is satisfied. It’s a waste of Judaism.”<\/div>\n
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What an interesting thought.. .. Lack of satisfaction as a motivation for innovation.. at some level, that’s so counter to my personal philosophy.. but.. the more i thought about it.. the more I had to grudgingly agree.. I can say that my own restlessness and insecurity about my abilities, knowledge etc\u00a0 has been one of the most powerful drivers for my wish to improve .. whether its\u00a0 something I’ve designed and\u00a0 built or my posture..<\/div>\n
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maybe the lesson here is to learn to go beyond that.. maybe if i could get to a point of satisfaction about myself, I could get more peace in my life..<\/div>\n
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maybe if folks like the Israelis and Palestinians\u00a0 could get more satisfaction. in their lives … who knows, maybe we’d\u00a0 we’d get real peace<\/div>\n
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nite all, nite sam<\/div>\n
-me<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a busy day I had a really nice visit with my buddy Jared. As always the conversation was wide ranging and satisfying.. but when we came to that exact point of ‘satisfaction’.. Jared shared a quote he’d just heard from the outgoing\u00a0 President of Israel Shimon Perez. Perez was addressing a pro Israeli lobby … Continue reading Monday night – “Can’t get no….”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[920],"class_list":["post-12053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cant-get-no"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12054,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}