{"id":505,"date":"2009-10-17T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:43:22","slug":"dont-get-destination-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Resist Destination Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media company executive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minyanville.com\/gazette\/bios.htm?bio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Todd Harrison<\/a>, who graduated from Syracuse University in 1991, thought he made it to the pinnacle when he was on Wall Street living as a Master of the Universe.\u00a0 But he says there&#8217;s a difference between &#8220;being happy&#8221; and &#8220;having fun.&#8221;\u00a0Being happy has nothing to do with making a lot of money and having material possessions, he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_506\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-506 \" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Todd Harrison, founder Minyanville\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/toddharris-mville-talk-su2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Harrison, founder of Minyanville\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/toddharris-mville-talk-su2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/toddharris-mville-talk-su2.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Harrison, founder of Minyanville at Syracuse University&#8217;s Whitman School of Management<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Harrison left his Wall Street position (over what he called philosophical differences) to create Minyanville (dot com), an Emmy Award-winning, animated,\u00a0financial media company that he says covers the business &#8220;ABC&#8217;s to the 401ks.&#8221; He also created the humorous characters <em>Boo the Bear<\/em> and <em>Hoofy the Bull.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harrison encouraged those business students and others in attendance that the current unsettled economic climate is a reality, but it is also an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Failures can help define your capacity, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media company executive Todd Harrison, who graduated from Syracuse University in 1991, thought he made it to the pinnacle when he was on Wall Street living as a Master of the Universe.\u00a0 But he says there&#8217;s a difference between &#8220;being happy&#8221; and &#8220;having fun.&#8221;\u00a0Being happy has nothing to do with making a lot of money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,20],"tags":[636,629,632,620,618,617,627,625,64,626,616,624,631,637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22881,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/22881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}