{"id":3429,"date":"2019-04-01T01:38:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T01:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2019-04-01T01:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T01:38:49","slug":"commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went to watch a Bharatnatyam dance show yesterday. It was a 1st time for me. What bewildered me was the grit of performers: they have been practicing for over 15 years. They have been a software engineer in their day jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many of us continue doing something we like for 15 years? Don&#8217;t we easily give up, get depressed and move on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My learnings: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>There are no shortcuts to success.<\/li><li>Pefection happens over practice with time.<\/li><li>Persistence and perseverance trumps rest.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4163.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4163.jpg 800w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4163-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4163-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to watch a Bharatnatyam dance show yesterday. It was a 1st time for me. What bewildered me was the grit of performers: they have been practicing for over 15 years. They have been a software engineer in their day jobs. How many of us continue doing something we like for 15 years? Don&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/commitment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commitment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[578],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}