{"id":12698,"date":"2016-02-07T23:10:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=9582"},"modified":"2016-02-07T23:10:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T15:10:40","slug":"why-do-hard-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2016\/02\/07\/why-do-hard-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do hard things? It&#8217;s about the people you meet along the way, including a better version of yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><em><strong>I&#8217;m somewhat intellectually convinced that it&#8217;s worth doing hard things in life, but I don&#8217;t always live as though I believe that to be true. So I&#8217;d like to think about it harder and push myself to embody it. I suppose the way to do it is to actually do hard things and then reflect on that. What are the hard things that I&#8217;ve done so far? What&#8217;s the hardest thing I&#8217;ve ever done? Probably get married and stay married. Get a job and keep a job. Pull myself out of depression. Can I aim higher, so that I can be proud of myself? Find out what I&#8217;m capable of?<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>[] why do hard things?<\/div>\n<div>Because it\u2019s materially rewarding<\/div>\n<div>Because it\u2019s psychologically rewarding<\/div>\n<div>Because it builds subconscious fortitude<\/div>\n<div>Because it makes life easier<\/div>\n<div>Because it earns self-respect, which is probably the ultimate yardstick of everything.<\/div>\n<div>Because it\u2019s challenging, and not hollow.<\/div>\n<div>Because it\u2019s there.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m somewhat intellectually convinced that it&#8217;s worth doing hard things in life, but I don&#8217;t always live as though I believe that to be true. So I&#8217;d like to think about it harder and push myself to embody it. I suppose the way to do it is to actually do&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[575],"tags":[595],"class_list":["post-12698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-letters-to-friends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3iO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}