{"id":53,"date":"2008-04-04T22:44:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T03:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-04-04T22:44:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T03:44:57","slug":"best-sentence-today-20080331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/04\/best-sentence-today-20080331\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sentence Today 20080331"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2008\/03\/getting-vs-taki.html\">Seth Godin&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<em>Most people spend a lot of time to get an education.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They wait for the teacher (hopefully a great one) to give them something of value.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Many employees do the same thing at work. They wait for a boss (hopefully a great one) to give them responsibility or authority or experiences that add up to a career.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A few people, not many, but a few, take. They take the best education they can get, pushing teachers for more, finding things to do, exploring non-defined niches. They take more courses than the minimum, they invent new projects and they show up with questions.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A few people, not many, take opportunities at work. Marketers have the easiest time of this (sort of hard to commandeer the chain saw) but don&#8217;t do it nearly as often as they should.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>What have you taken today?<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>+Getting Vs. Taking<br \/>\nThis resonates with me so much.  I&#8217;ve always had a &#8220;<em>take it<\/em>&#8221; attitude. It is not apparent but this is because I seldom want things.<br \/>\nbut If I want something the fact is that the I will not be stopped.<br \/>\n(to be continued)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Seth Godin&#8217;s blog: Most people spend a lot of time to get an education. They wait for the teacher (hopefully a great one) to give them something of value. Many employees do the same thing at work. They wait for a boss (hopefully a great one) to give them responsibility or authority or experiences &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/04\/best-sentence-today-20080331\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Sentence Today 20080331&#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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-sentence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}