{"id":293,"date":"2012-06-14T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/?p=293"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T10:45:42","slug":"compared-to-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/compared-to-magical\/","title":{"rendered":"Compared to magical&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-144\" title=\"Dolphins Group_open conversations\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1320079047_ways-to-stand-out-online_8-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dolphins Group blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1320079047_ways-to-stand-out-online_8-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1320079047_ways-to-stand-out-online_8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1320079047_ways-to-stand-out-online_8-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1320079047_ways-to-stand-out-online_8.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to sell yourself  short is to compare your work to the competition. To say that you are 5%  cheaper or have one or two features that stand out&#8211;this is a formula  for slightly better mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>The goal ought to be to compare yourself not to the best your peers  or the competition has managed to get through a committee or down on  paper, but to an unattainable, magical unicorn.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to that, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The easiest way to sell yourself short is to compare your work to the competition. To say that you are 5% cheaper or have one or two features that stand out&#8211;this is a formula for slightly better mediocrity. The goal ought to be to compare yourself not to the best your peers or the competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[139,140,90,184,179,182,161,163,162,224,229,228,231,120,69,146,230,20,26,91,113,112,186,71,183,38,185,81,104,103,221,27,21,43,96,65,72,42,155,156,154,157,77,25,88,237,79,205,45,93,94,116,117,130,134,135,144,143,99,40,39,92,133,200,125,106,105,49,127,201,202,108,152,151,150,149,126,176,170,178,180,177,114,28,36,181,73,22,227,226,147,233,234,236,235,85,118,82,122,123,76,142,141,219,62,63,128,30,78,44,172,6,80,167,166,222,110,68,23,160,223,204,86,87,75,64,115,89,101,100,34,33,124,9,48,67,7,158,159,203,47,216,70,209,37,210,207,213,214,212,211,208,206,109,215,131,35,168,173,169,145,32,29,175,111,74,24,132,165,84,164,107,129,217,196,195,199,197,192,56,194,193,189,190,188,187,191,55,138,31,137,136,218,59,174,61,148],"yst_prominent_words":[882,753],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}