{"id":2364,"date":"2009-11-17T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2009-11-17T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:26:14","slug":"advicethe-40-30-30-rule-why-risk-is-worth-it-tips-the-99-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/advicethe-40-30-30-rule-why-risk-is-worth-it-tips-the-99-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice::The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It :: Tips :: The 99 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Many of the strategies employed in competitive and recreational sports are applicable in business and our personal lives. One lesson I learned from alpine ski racing was the &#8220;40-30-30 Rule.&#8221; During training, early on, I tried to go fast, and I also focused on not falling. On a ride up the ski lift, my coach told me I was missing the point. He explained that success in ski racing, or most sports for that matter, was only 40% physical training. The other 60% was mental. And of that, the first 30% was technical skill and experience.<strong> The second 30% was the willingness to take risks.<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/the99percent.com\/tips\/6103\/the-40-30-30-rule-why-risk-is-worth-it\">The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It :: Tips :: The 99 Percent<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m choosing between two job offers right now, and its a choice between safe and predictable returns versus very risky (an actual startup, again ) and zero to great returns. Most friends advice going the predictable route, I&#8217;d like to go the unpredictable route. Why is it so hard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the strategies employed in competitive and recreational sports are applicable in business and our personal lives. One lesson I learned from alpine ski racing was the &#8220;40-30-30 Rule.&#8221; During training, early on, I tried to go fast, and I also focused on not falling. On a ride up the ski lift, my coach &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/advicethe-40-30-30-rule-why-risk-is-worth-it-tips-the-99-percent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advice::The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It :: Tips :: The 99 Percent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}