{"id":190,"date":"2010-01-07T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2010-01-07T12:21:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:21:47","slug":"taking-risks-in-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"taking risks in career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a timely reminder which somehow seems more relevant at this time of transition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>While we tend to focus solely on building our skill sets or expanding our knowledge, the greatest advancement and learning most often comes from action, experience, and taking risk. And our regrets in life reflect this. According to Gilbert, studies show that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in the long run, people of every age and in every walk of life seem to regret <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">not<\/span> having done things much more than they regret things they <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">did<\/span>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the99percent.com\/tips\/6103\/the-40-30-30-rule-why-risk-is-worth-it\" target=\"_blank\">link to article<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=12066967-2aa6-8ff2-8d27-962a6175cbc7\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a timely reminder which somehow seems more relevant at this time of transition: While we tend to focus solely on building our skill sets or expanding our knowledge, the greatest advancement and learning most often comes from action, experience, and taking risk. And our regrets in life reflect this. According to Gilbert, studies show that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;taking risks in career&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}