{"id":429,"date":"2008-05-07T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T19:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=429"},"modified":"2009-10-10T14:33:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T19:33:52","slug":"you-can%e2%80%99t-be-great-at-something-you%e2%80%99re-not-good-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/you-can%e2%80%99t-be-great-at-something-you%e2%80%99re-not-good-at\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Be Great at Something You\u2019re Not Good At"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you work this week, think about these three statements:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-430\" title=\"starnite\" src=\"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/starnite.jpg\" alt=\"starnite\" width=\"288\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/starnite.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/starnite-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/>1.    Working hard at what comes hard leads to <em>mediocrity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>2.    Working easy at what comes hard leads to <em>unemployment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>3.    Working hard at what comes easy leads to <em>amazement<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You will never be great at something you\u2019re not wired to do well. You might be good, you might even be better than average. But why waste your life trying to be great at something you\u2019re only good at?<\/p>\n<p>While you can be really good at many things, you can only be great at a very few things. Find out what those things are. How do you do that? Here\u2019s a hint. If it\u2019s a thing that\u2019s hard for others but easy for you, it\u2019s a strength. Use it. Work hard at it and you\u2019ll make something special of your work life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you work this week, think about these three statements: 1. Working hard at what comes hard leads to mediocrity. 2. Working easy at what comes hard leads to unemployment. 3. Working hard at what comes easy leads to amazement. You will never be great at something you\u2019re not wired to do well. You might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/you-can%e2%80%99t-be-great-at-something-you%e2%80%99re-not-good-at\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Can\u2019t Be Great at Something You\u2019re Not Good At&#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":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}