{"id":43,"date":"2013-09-03T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/if-everyone-had-the-luxury-to-pursue-a-life-of\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:39:54","slug":"if-everyone-had-the-luxury-to-pursue-a-life-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/if-everyone-had-the-luxury-to-pursue-a-life-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Secret of Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and brilliant. \u2026 If you got to spend every day of your life doing what you love, you can\u2019t help but be the best in the world at that. And you get to smile every day for doing so. And you\u2019ll be working at it almost to the exclusion of personal hygiene, and your friends are knocking on your door, saying, \u201cDon\u2019t you need a vacation?!,\u201d and you don\u2019t even know what the word \u201cvacation\u201d means because what you\u2019re doing is what you want to do and a vacation from that is anything but a vacation \u2014 that\u2019s the state of mind of somebody who\u2019s doing what others might call visionary and brilliant.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/27\/neil-degrasse-tyson-and-neil-gaiman-on-genius\/?utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_campaign=Buffer&amp;utm_content=buffer792f1&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Neil deGrasse Tyson on the secret of genius<\/a>\u00a0c\/o\u00a0<a title=\"swissmiss\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-miss.com\/2013\/09\/pursuing-what-you-love.html\">swissmiss<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and brilliant. \u2026 If you got to spend every day of your life doing what you love, you can\u2019t help but be the best in the world at that. And you get to smile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-engagement","category-inspiration-2","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}