{"id":167,"date":"2006-04-19T17:16:45","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T22:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2006-04-20T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T13:00:15","slug":"is-it-important-to-be-the-best-at-what-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/general\/is-it-important-to-be-the-best-at-what-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Important to be the Best at What You Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, says Paul Pearsall in his book ?The Last Self-Help Book You?ll Ever Need? (Basic Books, 2005).<\/p>\n<p>?Settle for second (or third or sixth) best,&#8221; advises Dr. Pearsall. &#8220;In any life endeavor, there can be only one number one. Relax and enjoy being one of the thousands who fall short ? misery is the ultimate result when we link our sense of achievement to other people?s failures.?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Should we settle for our lot in life? Or never give up trying to improve and do better?<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s more of Pearsall&#8217;s somewhat negative advice: &#8220;Stop trying to live up to your full potential. You probably don&#8217;t  have much more potential than you&#8217;re showing right now, and striving for more will only cause disappointment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, says Paul Pearsall in his book ?The Last Self-Help Book You?ll Ever Need? (Basic Books, 2005). ?Settle for second (or third or sixth) best,&#8221; advises Dr. Pearsall. &#8220;In any life endeavor, there can be only one number one. Relax and enjoy being one of the thousands who fall short ? misery is the ultimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}