{"id":1276,"date":"2011-12-31T17:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T01:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/alan\/2011\/12\/do-not-fear-failure.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:39","slug":"do-not-fear-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2011\/12\/do-not-fear-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Fear Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do not fear failure. Whatever happened in the past is past; do not worry about it happening again. Before you meet with success, failure is natural and necessary. As a baby learns to walk, it keeps falling down. Is this failure? Throughout our life we go through similar processes: going to school, pursuing a career, practicing Ch&#8217;an. After my first book, someone said to me, &#8220;Now you&#8217;re a success.&#8221; I said, &#8220;No. That book was a failure. I would write it much better if I had to do it again.&#8221; It is the same with practice; there is never a successful conclusion. When you are working hard, failure is natural. If you have never failed, you have never tried.&#8221; &#8211; Master Sheng-Yen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricycle.com\/dharma-talk\/being-natural\">Tricycle magazine<\/a>, Summer 1995&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Happy New Year everyone.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Do not fear failure. Whatever happened in the past is past; do not worry about it happening again. Before you meet with success, failure is natural and necessary. As a baby learns to walk, it keeps falling down. Is this&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2011\/12\/do-not-fear-failure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}