{"id":2520,"date":"2018-05-07T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:46:48","slug":"why-am-i-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/07\/why-am-i-a-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I a failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2507\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2507\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-13-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"Why am I a failure?\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-13-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-13.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why am I a failure?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.&#8221; This apocryphal quote, often mis-attributed to Albert Einstein, illustrates that everyone is good at something, they just need to find the thing that suits them best. Everyone fails repeatedly; the most important thing is to get back up and keep trying to find what you&#8217;re good at. Being in college is all about figuring out what makes you happy, what you&#8217;re passionate about, and what you can do to make that your life&#8217;s work. You&#8217;re not a failure, you&#8217;re just still finding your calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.&#8221; This apocryphal quote, often mis-attributed to Albert Einstein, illustrates that everyone is good at something, they just need to find the thing that suits them best. Everyone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/07\/why-am-i-a-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why am I a failure?&#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":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}