{"id":6798,"date":"2016-05-16T21:51:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2016-05-16T21:51:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:51:21","slug":"you-probably-know-to-ask-yourself-what-do-i-want-heres-a-way-better-question-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/16\/you-probably-know-to-ask-yourself-what-do-i-want-heres-a-way-better-question-quartz\/","title":{"rendered":"You probably know to ask yourself, \u201cWhat do I want?\u201d Here\u2019s a way better question \u2014 Quartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What determines your success isn\u2019t \u201cWhat do you want to enjoy?\u201d The question is, \u201cWhat pain do you want to sustain?\u201d The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/markmanson.net\/question\">You probably know to ask yourself, \u201cWhat do I want?\u201d Here\u2019s a way better question \u2014 Quartz<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve internalized this before a couple of years back.<br \/>\nI had a personal motto. Proof of desire is pursuit.<br \/>\nI sort of forgot about it and only now am beginning the process of re internalizing and living it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; What determines your success isn\u2019t \u201cWhat do you want to enjoy?\u201d The question is, \u201cWhat pain do you want to sustain?\u201d The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/16\/you-probably-know-to-ask-yourself-what-do-i-want-heres-a-way-better-question-quartz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You probably know to ask yourself, \u201cWhat do I want?\u201d Here\u2019s a way better question \u2014 Quartz&#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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798","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=6798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}