{"id":292713,"date":"2020-12-21T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T23:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=292713"},"modified":"2020-12-21T18:31:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T23:31:41","slug":"do-what-scares-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/21\/do-what-scares-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Do What Scares You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the best way to live life? Simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Do what scares you. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>By doing that which scares you, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re more likely to achieve epic things, and discover more interesting things about existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d anyways? Something you want to do, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re afraid of the negative consequences of attempting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus once again &#8230; if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re afraid of doing something, it actually genuinely means you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re <em>interested<\/em> or <em>curious<\/em> about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re afraid to invest money into <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/08\/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency-for-photographers\/\">cryptocurrency<\/a>. Why are you afraid? You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re interested, but fearful that your money will go to $0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure in life you can do many things which you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re afraid of, and you might still fail. You might hurt yourself, you might go bankrupt (Donald Trump), get into massive debt (Kanye West), etc. But fulfilling your personal curiosity about yourself, your limits and to treat life as an interesting experiment &#8230; isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it worth it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the best way to live life? Simple: Do what scares you. By doing that which scares you, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re more likely to achieve epic things, and discover more interesting things about existence. What is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d anyways? Something you want to do, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re afraid of the negative consequences of attempting it. Thus once again &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2A9BC601-D19C-4847-A92E-9B2BD6940A58.jpeg?fit=1494%2C2048&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292717,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292713\/revisions\/292717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}