{"id":94,"date":"2012-01-29T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bikeodyssey.cc\/on-hannibals-trail\/2013\/05\/22\/hannibal-us-and-him\/"},"modified":"2018-05-05T18:35:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T18:35:36","slug":"hannibal-us-and-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeodyssey.cc\/on-hannibals-trail\/2012\/01\/29\/hannibal-us-and-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannibal, Us and Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 21px;\">Andreas Kluth, author of,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><em><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 21px;\">Hannibal and Me: What History&#8217;s Greatest Military Leader Can Teach Us About Success and Failure<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/em>has written a fun post\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">about<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0On Hannibal&#8217;s Trail<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0at his blog<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span face=\"'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andreaskluth.org\/2012\/01\/26\/hannibalhasdrubalmago-dannybensam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" style=\"cursor: pointer; color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;\">http:\/\/andreaskluth.org\/2012\/<wbr \/><span class=\"word_break\" style=\"display: inline-block;\"><\/span>01\/26\/<wbr \/><span class=\"word_break\" style=\"display: inline-block;\"><\/span>hannibalhasdrubalmago-dannybens<wbr \/><span class=\"word_break\" style=\"display: inline-block;\"><\/span>am\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;\">The idea o<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;\">f Andreas&#8217; book<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;\">\u00a0is that stories about lives like Hannibal&#8217;s can offer lessons and parallels to all of us. \u00a0Andreas has been fascinated by the life of Hannibal since he\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;\">was a child and finally left his job as an investment banker because of this and a feeling that his job lacked purpose. He says,\u00a0<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/span><em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Hannibal also warns us, like Einstein and Tennessee Williams and other creative people, how easy it is to let success become a prison. I mean a prison of the imagination. What made these people successful was a certain irreverence, an openness to radical ideas, a disdain for conventional wisdom. But success makes people less open to such ideas. 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