I find that one of the greatest impediments to getting things done is overconfidence. After a string of successes, at some point I start to think that everything will turn out great, no matter what, and that’s when I start to get careless.<\/p>\n
At which point, inevitably, something goes wrong. And then I am reminded that the ability to maintain a little humility is one of the most useful tools in your toolbox.<\/p>\n
Yes, I know it sounds ironic, but it’s true. There’s nothing like a good setback to help you make good progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I find that one of the greatest impediments to getting things done is overconfidence. After a string of successes, at some point I start to think that everything will turn out great, no matter what, and that’s when I start to get careless. At which point, inevitably, something goes wrong. And then I am reminded … Continue reading “In praise of setbacks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28160,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159\/revisions\/28160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}