{"id":504009,"date":"2023-05-07T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T22:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=504009"},"modified":"2023-05-07T18:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T22:42:39","slug":"placate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/07\/placate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Placate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to placate, to either placate others or yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/placate\">Placate<\/a> means to make smooth, flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The truth is that human nature is implacable. We have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153divine dissatisfaction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Jeff Bezos says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore the problem I think is that in life, we think the goal should be to placate others, to make them \u00e2\u20ac\u0153happy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and to give them everything that they ask for. However, this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t and <em>shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/em> be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What should we be driven by then instead?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, weightlifters, bodybuilders, powerlifters shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seek to an achieve some sort of satisfaction or placation. Instead\u00e2\u20ac\u201d to simply lust for more is a virtue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\" style=\"\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jetpack-videopress-player__wrapper\"> <iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1044' height='1000' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/HpfQI0jw?cover=1&amp;autoPlay=1&amp;controls=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;playsinline=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;useAverageColor=1&amp;hd=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to placate, to either placate others or yourself. Placate means to make smooth, flat. The truth is that human nature is implacable. We have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153divine dissatisfaction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Jeff Bezos says. Therefore \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504009","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=504009"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504035,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504009\/revisions\/504035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}