{"id":3415,"date":"2019-08-04T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T02:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2019-08-04T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T06:38:02","slug":"break-a-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/break-a-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Break a leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing all the best to individuals who have to perform in something might improve their performance.\u00a0 This has been proven in research such as &#8220;Keep your fingers crossed&#8221; which has shown &#8220;activating good-luck-related superstitions via a common saying or action such as break a leg, or a lucky charm improves subsequent performance in golfing, motor dexterity, memory and anagram games&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But this does not mean the performers should prepare less for any competition or task though.\u00a0 Relying on luck with lackluster efforts won&#8217;t result in high performance.\u00a0 There is nothing wrong in dreaming, hoping or wishing but we have to take reality into consideration.\u00a0 We have to face life&#8217;s challenges head-on, not to put our heads on sand like ostriches thinking the challenges, harm or whatever will go away or pass by without us doing nothing about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/05\/All-the-bestjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-744\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/05\/All-the-bestjpg-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/05\/All-the-bestjpg-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/05\/All-the-bestjpg.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing all the best to individuals who have to perform in something might improve their performance.\u00a0 This has been proven in research such as &#8220;Keep your fingers crossed&#8221; which has shown &#8220;activating good-luck-related superstitions via a common saying or action such as break a leg, or a lucky charm improves subsequent performance in golfing, motor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/break-a-leg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Break a leg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-personal","category-random-rambling","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}