{"id":213,"date":"2021-01-16T21:33:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T21:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/declansoftware.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2021-01-16T21:33:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T21:33:24","slug":"and-that-honestly-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/and-that-honestly-changed-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;And that honestly changed my life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/http-npgsiedu-media-b2000450cjpg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328\" width=\"675\" height=\"507\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of \u201cgetting to know you\u201d questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What\u2019s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don\u2019t play any sports. I do theatre, I\u2019m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.<\/p><p>And he went WOW. That\u2019s amazing! And I said, \u201cOh no, but I\u2019m not any good at ANY of them.\u201d<\/p><p>And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: \u201cI don\u2019t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you\u2019ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.\u201d<\/p><p>And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn\u2019t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could \u201cWin\u201d at them.<\/p><cite>Kurt Vonnegut<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of \u201cgetting to know you\u201d questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What\u2019s your favorite subject? And I told him, no<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/and-that-honestly-changed-my-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;&#8220;And that honestly changed my life&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}