{"id":2026,"date":"2018-04-16T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2018-04-17T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:17:56","slug":"what-is-the-optimal-attitude-disposition-that-a-person-graduating-college-should-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/16\/what-is-the-optimal-attitude-disposition-that-a-person-graduating-college-should-have\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the optimal attitude\/disposition that a person graduating college should have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2019\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041618-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2019\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/041618-3-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"Optimally What is the optical attitude\/disposition that a person graduating college should have?\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What is the optimal attitude\/disposition that a person graduating college should have?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many qualities will help, but the central one is a commitment to honesty. After you graduate, you&#8217;ll get the indescribable pleasure of your work &amp; life having real impact on others, not just grade impacts on you. The flip side is the anxiety of unanticipated impacts: sometimes things don&#8217;t go as planned. Being the best you involves conflicting attitudes: bring the confidence &amp; boldness when it&#8217;s time to act, persistence when things don&#8217;t go as planned, humility and flexibility when you need to ask for help and change plans, and adaptability and teachability when it&#8217;s time to grow. Why is honesty central? You can only understand a situation, other people, or yourself when you assess honestly, and you have to understand a situation to know which attitude to bring to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many qualities will help, but the central one is a commitment to honesty. After you graduate, you&#8217;ll get the indescribable pleasure of your work &amp; life having real impact on others, not just grade impacts on you. The flip side is the anxiety of unanticipated impacts: sometimes things don&#8217;t go as planned. Being the best &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/16\/what-is-the-optimal-attitude-disposition-that-a-person-graduating-college-should-have\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the optimal attitude\/disposition that a person graduating college should have?&#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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","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=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}