http://janera.com CURATING GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://janera.com/2008/09/05/on-the-train-from-lisbon-to-madrid/ http://janera.com/2008/09/05/on-the-train-from-lisbon-to-madrid/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:06:10 +0000 Editors http://janera.zodiackingdom.com/?p=76 It was on a train in the middle of the night from Lisbon to Madrid that I started to read The Year of Magical Thinking. In it, Joan Didion said that one characteristic of successful people is that they believe anything can be resolved with a phone call, or a letter or a visit to the right person. They do not take “no” for an answer. It’s not stubborn or arrogant; it’s that “no” just doesn’t happen to them that often, so when it does, they don’t take it seriously...]]> http://janera.com/2008/09/05/on-the-train-from-lisbon-to-madrid/feed/ 0