{"id":3883,"date":"2010-03-29T00:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T05:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2010-03-29T00:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T05:33:36","slug":"repost-wouldnt-you-rather-burn-out-doing-something-you-love-than-plod-along-doing-something-you-merely-put-up-with-the-art-of-non-conformity-notes-on-a-full-life-live-from-cx-883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/29\/repost-wouldnt-you-rather-burn-out-doing-something-you-love-than-plod-along-doing-something-you-merely-put-up-with-the-art-of-non-conformity-notes-on-a-full-life-live-from-cx-883\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost  :Wouldn\u2019t you rather burn out doing something you love than plod along doing something you merely put up with?: The Art of Non-Conformity \u00bb Notes on a Full Life, Live from CX 883"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Wouldn\u2019t you rather burn out doing something you love than  plod along doing something you merely put up with? <\/strong><br \/>\nDon\u2019t get me wrong; I have no plans of going down in flames in the  foreseeable future. I have a close circle of trusted advisors that I  listen to carefully. If they told me I was in danger of exhaustion or  boredom (the latter being more dangerous, I think), I\u2019d pay attention  and make some changes.<br \/>\nBut my close advisors are also the kind of people who understand that  I shouldn\u2019t always be making the safe choices. They know me, and they  know I\u2019d die a slow death if I slowed down too much. I went in the bank  the other day to open a new account and looked around at everyone  working there. I felt like I aged three days in the 40 minutes I sat in  the chair filling out paperwork. I just can\u2019t fathom the idea of a life  like that.<br \/>\nAll things considered, I\u2019d rather regret something I did than regret  something I wanted to do but was restrained by fear or insecurity from  going for it. In other words, I want a full life. I don\u2019t want to miss  out on anything. There will always be time to sleep later.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisguillebeau.com\/3x5\/notes-on-a-full-life-live-from-cx-883\/\">The Art of Non-Conformity \u00bb Notes on a Full Life, Live from CX 883<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn\u2019t you rather burn out doing something you love than plod along doing something you merely put up with? Don\u2019t get me wrong; I have no plans of going down in flames in the foreseeable future. I have a close circle of trusted advisors that I listen to carefully. If they told me I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/29\/repost-wouldnt-you-rather-burn-out-doing-something-you-love-than-plod-along-doing-something-you-merely-put-up-with-the-art-of-non-conformity-notes-on-a-full-life-live-from-cx-883\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost  :Wouldn\u2019t you rather burn out doing something you love than plod along doing something you merely put up with?: The Art of Non-Conformity \u00bb Notes on a Full Life, Live from CX 883&#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":[2,6,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-best-read","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","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=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}