{"id":2145,"date":"2024-05-28T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2024-05-28T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:02:37","slug":"comfort-and-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/comfort-and-convenience\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort and convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC9067-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"dolphins_training_kenya\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC9067-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC9067-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC9067-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC9067-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC9067-2048x1360.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the last thirty years, the easiest shortcut has been convenience.<\/p>\n<p>If a marketer or a politician or an institution wants to gain acceptance, make it convenient. That is ; trade almost anything to save a few moments of hassle or thought.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;ve been spending our time and money on comfort.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not the same.<\/p>\n<p>Convenience in the short run often comes at the expense of comfort. The comfort of resilience, of kindness, of long-term satisfaction. The comfort of offering someone dignity, a hand up or knowing that we put our effort into something useful.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the next cycle of our cultural development will be to find the courage to walk away from convenience and find comfort instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last thirty years, the easiest shortcut has been convenience. If a marketer or a politician or an institution wants to gain acceptance, make it convenient. That is ; trade almost anything to save a few moments of hassle or thought. But that doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;ve been spending our time and money on comfort. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[2727,423,424,2752,2753,2754,2751,1673,56,2756,2740,2744,2749,55,390,2742,387,388,389,2755,2729,2724],"yst_prominent_words":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}