{"id":7587,"date":"2017-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/a-harvard-professor-says-your-answers-to-2-questions-will-help-you-become-more-successful\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T05:00:00","slug":"a-harvard-professor-says-your-answers-to-2-questions-will-help-you-become-more-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/a-harvard-professor-says-your-answers-to-2-questions-will-help-you-become-more-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"A Harvard Professor Says Your Answers to 2 Questions Will Help You Become More Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder that given the right situations, our eccentricities can be the reason for our successes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/thriveglobal.com\/stories\/a-harvard-professor-says-your-answers-to-2-questions-will-help-you-become-more-successful-in-life\/\">A Harvard Professor Says Your Answers to 2 Questions Will Help You Become More Successful in Life &#8211; Thrive Global<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Michael Phelps and Winston Churchill make early appearances in Eric Barker&#8217;s book, &#8221; Barking Up the Wrong Tree.&#8221; Barker uses them as prime examples of people who succeeded because of &#8211; not in spite of &#8211; their eccentricities. Phelps has an unusual body type; Churchill was a &#8220;paranoid loose cannon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder that given the right situations, our eccentricities can be the reason for our successes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/skinner-production\/stories\/featured_images\/000\/011\/163\/large\/28132564163_fe76ca4dac_k.jpg?1501527200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-7587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-engagement","9":"tag-leadership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}