{"id":3181,"date":"2014-04-17T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2014-10-01T05:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:25:36","slug":"true-grit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2014\/04\/true-grit\/","title":{"rendered":"True Grit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/grit-Angela-Lee-Duckworth.png\" alt=\"grit-Angela-Lee-Duckworth\" width=\"677\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/grit-Angela-Lee-Duckworth.png 677w, http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/grit-Angela-Lee-Duckworth-580x290.png 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Success. We all want it. We\u2019ll work our whole lives trying to chase it. But do we even know what success looks like?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not sure what we mean by success, or if you\u2019re having trouble achieving it, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/10\/25\/240777690\/success\">Ted Radio Hour<\/a> will help.<\/p>\n<p>I especially connected with the talk about grit, by Dr. Angela Duckworth. Her research, which shows that people who work the hardest tend to be the most successful, matches what I have been saying for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that people should pursue their dreams, no matter what they are. They may seem impossible, but if you are committed to working the hardest and refuse to give up, then I believe you will find they aren\u2019t so unattainable after all. I know, it sounds trite, but now Dr. Duckworth has scientific evidence to back me up.<\/p>\n<p>Here is her full talk:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qaeFnxSfSC4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Other speakers in this episode include Tony Robbins on How Can Drive Make You A Success, Ron Gutman asking the question, Can You Smile Your Way To Success, Mike Rowe speaks on Are Dirty People The Most Successful, and Alain Botton asks, What\u2019s a Kinder Way To Frame Success.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you really want to learn how to be successful, you&#8217;ll just watch this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9-cPWheNyaA?list=PL9199F936644B3BEF\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Success. We all want it. We\u2019ll work our whole lives trying to chase it. But do we even know what success looks like? If you\u2019re not sure what we mean by success, or if you\u2019re having trouble achieving it, this Ted Radio Hour will help. I especially connected with the talk about grit, by Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2724,2725,2726,2729,2728,2723,2722,131,2720,2582,2721,2727],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-alain-botton","tag-angela-duckworth","tag-grit","tag-i-call-that-bold-talk-for-a-one-eyed-fat-man","tag-john-wayne","tag-mike-rowe","tag-ron-gutman","tag-success","tag-ted-radio-hour","tag-ted-talk","tag-tony-robbins","tag-true-grit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}