{"id":4009,"date":"2019-10-14T00:33:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2019-10-14T00:33:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T19:03:32","slug":"connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/14\/connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have come to that stage of my life where I am least interested in making new connections. I feel like I am completely exhausted with my real-life friend&#8217;s list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a small list of friends and I am happy with them around me. I am finding everything else as a distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am also fed up with the wise men preaching on various subjects from entrepreneurship, life, career or relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the point of taking advice, taking counseling in your affairs from someone who has no skin in your GAME? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At times I feel I have entered into an age of getting a quick fix for everything which is not sustainable in the longer run.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your situation, startup, life is yours and wasting time listening to some random podcast or coffee meet will only create confusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One has to own his\/her shit, read, learn, re-learn and engage people who have skin in the game, people who are part of the business: customers, investors, and advisors everything else is a distraction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have come to that stage of my life where I am least interested in making new connections. I feel like I am completely exhausted with my real-life friend&#8217;s list. I have a small list of friends and I am happy with them around me. I am finding everything else as a distraction. I am &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/14\/connect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Connect&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009"}],"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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}