{"id":7986,"date":"2020-04-16T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2020-04-16T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:04:02","slug":"the-stockdale-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7986","title":{"rendered":"The Stockdale Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimcollins.com\/media_topics\/TheStockdaleParadox.html\">Jim Collins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said, \u201cWell, you have to understand, it was never depressing. Because despite all those circumstances, I never ever wavered in my absolute faith that not only would I prevail\u2014get out of this\u2014but I would also prevail by turning it into the defining event of my life that would make me a stronger and better person. Not only that, Jim, you realize I\u2019m the lucky one.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cYes, because I know the answer to how I would do, and you never will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A little later in the conversation, after I\u2019d absorbed that and said nothing for about five minutes because I was just stunned, I asked him who didn\u2019t make it out of those systemic circumstances as well as he had.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cOh, it\u2019s easy. I can tell you who didn\u2019t make it out. It was the optimists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I said, \u201cI\u2019m really confused, Admiral Stockdale.\u201d  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Collins: He said, \u201cWell, you have to understand, it was never depressing. Because despite all those circumstances, I never ever wavered in my absolute faith that not only would I prevail\u2014get out of this\u2014but I would also prevail by turning it into the defining event of my life that would make me a stronger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7987,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}