{"id":346,"date":"2008-03-18T20:29:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/attitude-is-way-overrated\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T20:29:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T01:29:57","slug":"attitude-is-way-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/attitude-is-way-overrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitude is Way Overrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-345\" title=\"Smiley-face\" src=\"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Smiley-face.gif\" alt=\"Smiley-face\" width=\"113\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Smiley-face.gif 313w, https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Smiley-face-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Smiley-face-296x300.gif 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 113px) 85vw, 113px\" \/>You\u2019ve heard it said that attitude is everything.  Well, it is almost everything, and the <em>almost<\/em> makes all the difference.  What is the almost that\u2019s missing, even if you have a great attitude?  It\u2019s <em>competency<\/em>. You must be competent. Happy, excited, motivated, smiling people who really suck at what they do, still fail. It\u2019s not one or the other. Why do we always seek that &#8211; this <em>or<\/em> that?  Why not use the genius of <em>both\/and<\/em>?  Great attitude and high levels of competence over time equal extreme success.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who lead would do well to keep that in mind.  It\u2019s not just the smile; it\u2019s the <em>skill<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve heard it said that attitude is everything. Well, it is almost everything, and the almost makes all the difference. What is the almost that\u2019s missing, even if you have a great attitude? It\u2019s competency. You must be competent. Happy, excited, motivated, smiling people who really suck at what they do, still fail. It\u2019s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/attitude-is-way-overrated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attitude is Way Overrated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}