{"id":8506045,"date":"2009-12-10T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/e-for-effort"},"modified":"2009-12-10T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:17:24","slug":"e-for-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/e-for-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"E for Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/girl-scaled-1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Girl\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/girl-scaled-1000.jpg?w=300\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Pick the attribute that is most responsible for success:<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><b>1. Ability<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>2. Effort<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>3. Other people<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>4. Luck<\/b><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Interesting that 3 out of the 4 can actually sometimes inhibit success. \u00a0If you believe in ability, there will be a task sometime where you feel you don&#039;t have the ability. \u00a0Other people are great until you are alone. \u00a0Luck works until it runs out. \u00a0Only effort constantly contributes to success.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>I find this interesting because effort is largely downplayed in many of my social circles. \u00a0When someone fails, we joke about them\u00a0receiving\u00a0an &quot;E for effort&quot; instead of an A.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>So the next time you feel you are failing at a certain task, honestly ask yourself if you are giving it your best effort. \u00a0Don&#039;t try to make excuses or find others to blame, look only at yourself. \u00a0Chances are you can give it a little something extra. Like Rudy. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Media_httpinconvenientbodyfileswordpresscom200911rudy1jpg_xageadbbbhenfjv\" height=\"475\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/media_httpinconvenientbodyfileswordpresscom200911rudy1jpg_xageadbbbhenfjv-scaled5001.jpg\" width=\"328\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick the attribute that is most responsible for success: 1. Ability 2. Effort 3. Other people 4. Luck Interesting that 3 out of the 4 can actually sometimes inhibit success. \u00a0If you believe in ability, there will be a task sometime where you feel you don&#039;t have the ability. \u00a0Other people are great until you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8506045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8506045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8506045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8506045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}