{"id":2197,"date":"2021-09-06T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2021-09-06T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T15:32:19","slug":"smart-luck-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2021\/09\/06\/smart-luck-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart luck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Teena Seelig, a professor in management science and engineering at Stanford, has been studying &#8220;luck&#8221; for two decades, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordmag.org\/contents\/out-of-luck-try-this\">Diana Aguilera&#8217;s article in <em>Stanford Magazine<\/em><\/a>. The professor provides some superb, lucid recommendations. My favourite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Show Appreciation. <\/strong>\u201cWhen someone does something for you, they\u2019re taking that time that they could be spending on themselves or someone else,\u201d Seelig says. \u201cAnd you need to acknowledge what they\u2019re doing.\u201d Being gracious, even when you\u2019re turning down an offer of assistance, may bring more opportunities your way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teena Seelig, a professor in management science and engineering at Stanford, has been studying &#8220;luck&#8221; for two decades, according to Diana Aguilera&#8217;s article in Stanford Magazine. The professor provides some superb, lucid recommendations. My favourite: Show Appreciation. \u201cWhen someone does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2021\/09\/06\/smart-luck-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-hygine","tag-repost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}