{"id":14314,"date":"2015-02-12T00:05:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T00:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/most-design-schools-are-built-around-the-idea-that\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T00:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T00:05:35","slug":"most-design-schools-are-built-around-the-idea-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/most-design-schools-are-built-around-the-idea-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most design schools are built around the idea that the higher the quality of your work, the greater your long-term success. But I believe something that\u2019s fundamentally different. I believe that your long-term success is more of a reflection of the size of your network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.garychou.com\/\">Gary Chou<\/a>, on the importance of social networks. I think another way of saying this is: It\u2019s really hard to accomplish things (including happiness) by yourself, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s a worthwhile endeavor to actively form and build meaningful relationships. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/youexdee.tumblr.com\/\">youexdee<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I may have been a little sloppy with my words in class. \u00a0When I re-checked my notes for class, what I had written down was: \u201cThe likelihood of your success is a function of the size and quality of your network, and not just the quality of your work.\u201d \u00a0I\u2019m glad <a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mYVba1EH-QogOr61xiC91AA\">youexdee<\/a> primed the discussion with her question, because it has really taken a few years for me to get to this point.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.garychou.com\/\">garychou<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most design schools are built around the idea that the higher the quality of your work, the greater your long-term success. But I believe something that\u2019s fundamentally different. I believe that your long-term success is more of a reflection of the size of your network. Gary Chou, on the importance of social networks. I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3IS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}