{"id":27647,"date":"2018-12-10T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T02:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/?p=27647"},"modified":"2018-12-30T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T02:30:27","slug":"6-resist-the-urge-to-be-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/2018\/12\/10\/6-resist-the-urge-to-be-average\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Resist the Urge to Be Average"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Everywhere around you are average people.<\/li>\n<li>They entice you into being more like them by offering their acceptance and by leading you to believe that everyone else is already more like them than like you.<\/li>\n<li>But the \u201caverage person sales pitch\u201d leaves out that you will be sacrificing your goals, individuality, and unique ideas and that you will lead a life determined more by the preferences of the group than by you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>Psychologists have observed that bad habits can spread\u00a0<\/em><em>through an office like a contagious disease. Employees\u00a0<\/em><em>tend to mirror the bad behaviors of their co-workers, with\u00a0<\/em><em>factors as diverse as low morale, poor working habits,\u00a0<\/em><em>and theft from the employer all rising based on the negative\u00a0<\/em><em>behavior of peers.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Greene 1999<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere around you are average people. They entice you into being more like them by offering their acceptance and by leading you to believe that everyone else is already more like them than like you. But the \u201caverage person sales pitch\u201d leaves out that you will be sacrificing your goals, individuality, and unique ideas and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100ss"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27648,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions\/27648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}