{"id":536,"date":"2013-08-13T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T09:14:11","slug":"do-what-frightens-you-first-for-the-best-chance-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Do what frightens you first for the best chance of growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be a scaredy-pants but now I look out for opportunities to experience things that I&#8217;m frightened of. I think doing that is one of the few ways we can grow.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve read about my kayaking in Madagascar experience before but this piece, first published in VroueKeur and then in BizCommunity, explains it best. <a title=\"www.BizCommunity.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizcommunity.com\/Article\/196\/595\/97632.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read it.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be a scaredy-pants but now I look out for opportunities to experience things that I&#8217;m frightened of. I think doing that is one of the few ways we can grow. You&#8217;ve read about my kayaking in Madagascar experience before but this piece,&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=536\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight_loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}