{"id":11518,"date":"2019-11-18T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=11518"},"modified":"2019-11-18T17:43:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:43:50","slug":"how-to-accept-your-own-flaw-one-you-have-no-control-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/11\/18\/how-to-accept-your-own-flaw-one-you-have-no-control-over\/","title":{"rendered":"How to accept your (own) flaw? One you have no control over."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191118_0412352.jpg\" alt=\"How to accept your own flaw? One you have no control over.\" class=\"wp-image-11498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191118_0412352.jpg 536w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191118_0412352-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><figcaption>How to accept your own flaw? One you have no control over.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> One possibility is to think of it as a challenge, and all challenges are character-building. What you do to adapt to the flaw becomes part of your character &#8211; perhaps even one of the best parts of your character &#8211; that you wouldn&#8217;t have without the flaw. In essence, turn the &#8220;flaw&#8221; into a source of growth, something that anyone without that flaw doesn&#8217;t get to experience. Another possibility: recognize that everyone has limitations of one kind or another, many of them invisible. IOW, you aren&#8217;t alone in the challenge of accepting yourself as you are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One possibility is to think of it as a challenge, and all challenges are character-building. What you do to adapt to the flaw becomes part of your character &#8211; perhaps even one of the best parts of your character &#8211; that you wouldn&#8217;t have without the flaw. In essence, turn the &#8220;flaw&#8221; into a source &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/11\/18\/how-to-accept-your-own-flaw-one-you-have-no-control-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to accept your (own) flaw? One you have no control over.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11534,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518\/revisions\/11534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}